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silhouette

[sil-oo-et] / ˌsɪl uˈɛt /


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Sure, for people with no health insurance, this is an enticing opportunity to effectively pay one month of coverage to get the silhouette of an annual physical, except without an actual doctor present.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

At Chanel, for example, creative director Matthieu Blazy introduced a new silhouette with very long handles that starts at $3,975.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Hapoel Jerusalem's club badge now features a silhouette of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted and killed in captivity and whose parents have campaigned for peace through their grief.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I think there is more runway for the silhouette in the next year or two,” Goldstein said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

But his paws groped at the open air, the wispy silhouette unaffected by his futile attempt.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

But they couldn't see the silhouettes on the slope.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

I think that’s what I look for when I style as well, and building shapes and silhouettes and textures and colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“For her, we have the hottest shoes and silhouettes in the market,” Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden said on the company’s earnings call last month.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

The sky glowed a Persian blue, and the black silhouettes of the buildings gave the neighborhood a fantasy quality, like the chimney-sweep scene in the Mary Poppins movie.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

The DJ was silhouetted by a large window display of a gigantic, human-sized plastic re-creation of Raising Cane’s chicken tenders and crinkle-cut fries being dipped into a tub of Cane’s Sauce.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

So it’ll be, like, 5 or 6 o’clock in the morning, and it’s dark, but the palm trees are silhouetted in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Bold purple and magenta animations of galloping warriors silhouetted against rustling pines cover entire walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

The man’s wife came to the door and stood silhouetted against the pale light of a kerosene lamp.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Occasionally he would lean forward, silhouetting himself entirely but for some unruly wisps of gray hair, which glowed like a nimbus.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020

We pulled into Sacramento and our first glorious California sunset, a sheet of horizontal oranges and reds silhouetting black water towers and high-tension wires.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2016

The photo captured Watkins’s image by silhouetting his head against an illuminated tree.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

You see it's enough to bring tears to the eyesby silhouetting trees,winter boughs spidery on mist-like white skiestwitched in a breeze.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013

Tally gazed down at the familiar skyline, the slender trails of fireworks silhouetting the party towers and mansions.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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