paint
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Inside the exhibition space, she uses a small painter’s brush to slowly paint the white walls red over the course of the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets - such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
"She continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush, and continued exploration of forever love and eternal soul," it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Visa and Mastercard shares notched their first record closes in more than a year, helping to paint a picture of sturdy consumer spending despite an array of pressures on American shoppers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
I made signs, posters, and notices in paint, marker, and crayon.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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The Canadian goods facing new 50% U.S. tariffs as of early Saturday include construction materials such as cement, paints, plywood, medium-density fiberboard and particle board.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Nine-year-old Sebastian paints a portrait of his family home, unable to comprehend that it no longer exists after the powerful quake that shattered western Colombia this week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Dmitry Muratov paints a bleak picture of life in Russia for critics of the authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Does “Don’t Say Good Luck” skirt around the grim realities of cancer as cavalierly as it paints a Pinterest mood-board vision of high school?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
He can only do this with oil paints.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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The very headboard of that bed sits in the exhibition; on it, Marquez painted fairy-tale creatures representing the lovers gallivanting across the woods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Greenaway, a former martial arts teacher from Poole, and Laver, his one-time flatmate and recently living in Ferndown, were both painted by their defence teams as playing a supporting role.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
She and her dancers arrived onstage painted in hot pink, the swamp princess’ hair fashioned into high pigtails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
In cavernous, tomblike galleries, exquisite statuettes are softly spot-lit on stone shelves without labels, while images of deities painted by Rivera flitted across the ceiling above.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
She’s certain that “urban chicken enthusiasts” want funky painted coops.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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But Jane, who enters her office to an oil painting of her father, smiling kindly in a maroon armchair, is confident that Sol would have wanted his holdings intact for generations to come.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Last September, Patricia Kadgien and her husband were charged with concealment and placed under house arrest after a search of her property initially failed to find the painting.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman took turns Thursday evening selling their environmental records — and painting starkly different pictures of the city’s performance under Bass’ leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
A wider institutional assessment of the auteur’s career, which spans painting, design, music and film, is already coming into focus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Even so, when I finished painting the last of the doorjambs and caulking around the new sinks and tubs that Dad and Jonah installed last weekend, I was happy to be done.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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