canvas

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Bean’s “Boat and Tote” canvas bag, and Pidgeon carries it in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Olka gestured to my grandmother, who held her paintbrush between her teeth as she scrutinized the canvas.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman