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wig

[wig] / wɪg /


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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

Fernandez, 29, has secured other freebies for her late August wedding in New Jersey, she said, including bridal hair and makeup, a custom wedding gown and a wig that would retail for about $10,000.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

"I may wear a wig if I'm dressing up, but usually I don't, and I get so many lovely compliments."

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

She concentrated on plugging in her hair straightener—which she’d borrowed from a girl down the hall who was going to be wearing a wig tonight anyway—and laid out her makeup.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Unlike her famous wigs, rhinestones and stilettos, it wasn’t something she could, or would, remove.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

"There is the risk of feeling unwell, but even when it comes to makeup and wearing wigs, we sweat, and it quickly becomes very difficult."

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Every year, thousands of people around the world don red robes – and in some cases long black wigs – for The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

His balding head’s scraggly hair—in contrast to the wigs worn by just about every Frenchman at the time, no matter the social class—is both ennobling and a bit enfeebling, like an aging but distinguished mane.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Putty noses, horsehair wigs, and phony accents were his bread and butter, so to speak.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“I think it wigged me out subconsciously,” he recalled.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

When he unwrapped the frozen foot, Mogli “would have gone through the door to get out the shop. And he wouldn’t come in here for weeks. He was absolutely wigged out.”

From Slate Nov. 14, 2019

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

She thought I had, which is why she and Sam wigged out.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

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

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after a wigging incident on set at "The Domestics" in 2016.

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

There would be a reprimand; what Bingo pleasantly termed "an official wigging," unless the Blue Pencil could, by any feminine art, be persuaded that it had passed those pars.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan




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