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curtain

[kur-tn] / ˈkɜr tn /


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What are you hoping this documentary will do in terms of making people a little bit more aware of who Elon Musk is and getting at the man behind the curtain, so to speak?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

While “The Outsiders,” may feature two warring teen gangs, it’s all love an hour before the curtain rises on the L.A.-premiere stop of the national tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Iñárritu spends the film’s first quarter setting the scene and characters — strangely quite literally, raising what looks like a stage curtain but is revealed to be a window shade.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The new curtain is not the artist’s first brush with classical music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then all the speakers went back out for a final curtain call.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The utility recommends setting air conditioners to 78 degrees, closing curtains during peak sun hours and using fans to circulate the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Audi team relies on hotel-provided black curtains, which McNish said are good but imperfect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

There were no blinds or curtains in the window, and an electric socket was "hanging dangerously off the wall".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The construction site will be wrapped with underwater silt curtains but Leidich worries the marine lakes will be contaminated by sediment plumes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

I leaped over to the chair, then scampered down to the floor and hid in the corner, behind the long curtains.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

When they got closer - the entrance to the cave had been curtained off with brightly coloured saris - they saw a "little blonde girl" running out.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

People wishing to give testimony may do so orally in a curtained area with a stenographer, or do so in writing at tables.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

One votes in private, in a curtained booth, on intimate terms with an oversize ballot.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

Her hair curtained across their faces as she leaned even closer toward him.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

He can no longer hold back this rage that he has been curtaining off with these civil gestures.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023

Cedars-Sinai has recruited more staff and expanded areas to care for patients, including curtaining off places in the hospital as “alternative care units.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

The curtaining of the Carnegie disappointed a stream of hungry would-be customers on Monday, many of them tourists who went out of their way to test their tolerance for protein.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015

In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love has no spells can scorching winds forbid,   Or bring the help which tarries near to hand, Or spread a cloud for curtaining faded eyes That gaze up dying into alien skies.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow


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