canvas
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Sometimes it is the details that best illustrate the broader canvas.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Harley calls it “the ultimate blank canvas for self-expression,” meaning riders will be encouraged to personalize it with parts and accessories, a major profit center for dealers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 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
So his architects hired 500 workers to build a full-size replica of the nonexistent arch, out of canvas and painted wood, for the imperial wedding.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
“Not every human is born as a canvas for celestial writings.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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