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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

“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

Rabanne, which has built an entire brand and silhouette around heavy metal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The brand has since flipped back and reintroduced the classic silhouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Some were carefully constructed scenes; one or two had attempted something artistic: a silhouette of a girl backlit by an enormous movie screen; a close-up of a tangled telephone cord wrapped around a receiver.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

He took a photo of them on the slope, small silhouettes against the snow.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Draped silhouettes and oversize parkas become an entry point into a vortex in which linearity doesn’t exist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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 girls went away looking at their silhouettes and laughing.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

As old as the invention of photography, rayographs—negative, silhouetted photographic prints made by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper—are more commonly known as photograms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Several unnerving things are happening at once, including the presence of a silhouetted stalker, old bones that give the dog nightmares and Todd’s unpredictable mood swings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

The low cement pickle vats silhouetted in the gloom made the factory floor look like an indoor cemetery for the cylindrical dead.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

The crew boat returned to Tigre as the sun set, casting a golden glow over the lapping water, silhouetting the Parque de la Costa amusement park.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2010

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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