hairline
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Is it a rift, kerfuffle, brawl or hairline fracture?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even a stray grain or hairline defect means the part has to be scrapped, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
My hair woes started in high school, when I would scrape my curls into a bun and lament how thin my hairline looked.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Later, he described Robbie Williams as having "more comebacks than his hairline", and said Shaun Ryder and Bez had "aged like service station flowers".
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
I knew where they disappeared beneath my hairline.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
They’ve had enough of hiding under hats and obsessively monitoring hairlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
As of 2021, there were an estimated 350,000 tattoo artists in the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare - most of whom specialised in semi-permanent make-up for lips, eyebrows or hairlines.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Dealing — or not dealing— with toxic masculinity passed down through dads like receding hairlines is a big theme of the show in general.
From Salon ● May 18, 2023
Yoon's party has not yet decided its position on traditional tattoos but supports legalising so-called cosmetic tattoos, which are semi-permanent and popular in South Korea for enhancing eyebrows, eyelines and hairlines.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2022
All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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