wig
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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