wig
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Another image criticised as an AI fake, shared on Instagram and X, depicted the late country singer without any make-up or a wig.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
She dons makeup, a wig, high heels and a pseudonym.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Kusama, instantly recognisable in her bright red wig and bold spotted outfits, worked well into old age from the psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she lived voluntarily for the second half of her life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her name was her brand, and so, too, was her profile: the full bosom and tiny waist, platinum wig and baubles like sprinkles on an ice cream cone, 5 feet tall standing in five-inch heels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
She would order a new wig from London.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don’t know how Warhol thought of his wigs, but I wanted it to be a sort of emblem of protection for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unlike her famous wigs, rhinestones and stilettos, it wasn’t something she could, or would, remove.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Annual bilateral trade -- a significant component of which is wigs made in the North -- has reportedly recovered since the pandemic to almost $3 billion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Dolly Parton may be known for her glamorous wigs and full face of make-up, but Alex Jones says, before she becomes Dolly on stage, she is "still absolutely striking".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
And you’ll see black women wearing these green and pink and purple and red and platinum-blonde wigs.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
“I think it wigged me out subconsciously,” he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Wiggly wigged dogs wiggling their dog wigs off their wiggly dog heads to the dismay of their dog wigmakers!
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2018
Instead, Carson waddled out dressed and wigged like the talkative octogenarian Aunt Blabby.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2017
What’s weird is that that joyful irreverance that I think of as so definitive of our national character is nowhere in our “official” cultural ouputs, except if you count the we-were-all-in-sydney-university-drama-society-together-in-1973 wigged impressions of politicians.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2017
“Great. You got wigged out by a smell?”
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
In Louis-Dreyfus, who starred opposite James Gandolfini in “Enough Said,” Holofcener has found the ideal collaborator, an actor gloriously adept at wigging out but also capable of conveying vulnerability with a persuasive honesty.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
Following MacNair's lawsuit, the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists launched an investigation into wigging cases, and concluded that wigging is "not acceptable and that this should not happen again."
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
Miller had two of his touchdowns after halftime, wigging through a hole on an off-tackle run and dashed down the sideline for a 75-yard TD.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
It was once commonplace for studios to use stuntmen in wigs instead of female doubles, a practice known as wigging.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2021
Something in the inspector's eye warns you, so you say "No" reluctantly to the impatient head-stevedore, for you're due for a wigging if this cargo's a waggon short of last voyage's.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
