motley
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Archibald Motley painted “Café, Paris” in 1929 while in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship—time that proved to be pivotal to his later, colorful depictions of black life in Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
“Biotech will be a comparative outperformer,” says Motley Fool biotech analyst Karl Thiel.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
Motley, the Brink’s driver who was dining at the Flying J, returned to his vehicle and noticed its rear lock had been cut away.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025
I passed the vice president’s west wing office, where she prominently displayed biographies of Rosa Parks and Constance Baker Motley and a painting of Amelia Boynton on Bloody Sunday hung on the wall.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
Motley collections of stray animals have always populated racetracks, and being the social creatures they are, horses usually befriend them.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing motley
"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "M"
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