canvas
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The grasslands and hillsides act as a vast, uncluttered canvas for their colors, which typically bloom in March and last through April.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The fight continued and Wilder pushed Chisora over in the fifth before landing after the bell in the sixth, while both men tumbled to the canvas more than once.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
His canvas was vast and so were his themes, chief among them a clear-eyed assessment of that part of the nation so essential to the formation of America’s national identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
He watched the sail makers cutting heavy canvas into strips and sewing it back together again.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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