canvas
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In a surprisingly tight contest, Ukrainian Usyk produced a late surge and landed a sharp left uppercut that sent the Dutchman to the canvas.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
This year’s abstract dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” encourages guests to treat the body as a canvas and “to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
So his architects hired 500 workers to build a full-size replica of the nonexistent arch, out of canvas and painted wood, for the imperial wedding.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Rubens was one of the last Baroque artists to paint on wood as well as canvas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
A young painter from a studio down the hall, Burt Silverman, studied the canvas, an image of homeless men on the street in New York.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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