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canvas

noun as in coarse material

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noun as in painting on coarse material

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Crime was one of the issues, and while canvassing a neighborhood, Fonda found this woman unwilling to open all of her door.

You could argue that there’s something exciting about the chance to draw a new community on the blank canvas of the old one.

The Hunter's Return is a vast canvas depicting a war zone, with toppled trees and craters lit up by a fiery sky, and with green military laser beams emerging from the smoke.

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Maher said Anderson, operating with an alleged budget of $175m, was working on "his most ambitious canvas" and concluded the film has an "easy best picture Oscar nomination in the bag".

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Banks showed off his canvas paintings, including a mostly black-and-white figure, in a graffiti art style, who is simultaneously smiling and crying.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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