torso
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Mexican side Club America's new home shirt is inspired by one worn during the 1998-99 season, with the club's crest blown up across the torso.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Graham developed her now-familiar modernist principles for working the torso and spine, known as “contraction” and “release,” with her troupe, all female at the time, between 1927 and 1928.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Turkey is now seeking the repatriation of other antiquities taken during the Ottoman era: an ancient marble torso called the "Old Fisherman" from Berlin, and dozens of Iznik tiles held at France's Louvre museum.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
To recreate the animal, researchers constructed the torso using polystyrene foam and a wooden frame, then added cotton, bubble paper, and fabric to mimic soft tissues.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
I pulled my sweaty body towards the other side of the pine, scrapes popping up red and puffy on my thighs and torso.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Andrea, then, was wont to cast in moulds of this material such natural objects as hands, feet, knees, legs, arms, and torsi, in order to have them before him and imitate them with greater convenience.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Gaston du C. De Vere
In addition to these works, that garden was full of torsi of men and women, which were a school not only for Mariotto, but for all the sculptors and painters of his time.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by Gaston du C. De Vere
"Women today are wearing flat plates that have been designed for male torsos," explains Erin Grieve, from NP Aerospace.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The first Roman Torlonia acquired important antique sculptures assembled by earlier collectors, with everything restored to perfection—no missing noses or limbless torsos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Butterflies, when spotted in the wild, or tattooed on the torsos of chaotic girls in their 20s, may be regarded as some kind of a sign.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
They tipped forward from their hips, leaning their torsos ever so slightly forward.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds lolled on the blue air above their heads.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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