canvas
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Sometimes it is the details that best illustrate the broader canvas.
From BBC • May 8, 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
Rubens was one of the last Baroque artists to paint on wood as well as canvas.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
“The main residence has brand-new Wolf appliances, including an induction range, refrigerator, and dishwasher. Custom new white oak hardwood flooring throughout is the canvas for your personal design statement,” the listing notes.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Boys also passed a courage test by jumping down one or two stories onto a canvas or into water.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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