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mustache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash] / ˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ /




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A charismatic speaker with a white mustache, Bhagwat raised laughs with the Chicago audience by saying Hindus don’t want to dominate; instead, he said, “We have to learn to work together separately.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Curry was the playfully crooked Rooster Hannigan, and had a standout scene singing and dancing in a pencil mustache and slicked back hair to “Easy Street,” alongside Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Yet in the modern era, no American president has gone about in mustache or beard.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

If the truck and the Walkman were metaphorical beacons, a modest gold, rope necklace and Jeff Kent’s mustache were concealed anchors even when in plain sight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

I glanced at the man sitting across the carpet from Samir—an elder from the East, with a mustache as thin as a razor and the self-satisfied look of an educated man.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Just that, bellowed in capital letters evoking images of very self-assured men sporting handlebar mustaches.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2025

His peers could dunk basketballs and had mustaches; he was in eighth grade but had barely hit puberty.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2024

Some of the women donned fake mustaches that mimicked Rome’s as they all toyed with possible explanations for what they had found.

From Science Magazine Jun. 6, 2024

As we entered the booth, Mr. Govind, a small man with flowing mustaches, was shouting at two women seated on the floor surrounded by a pile of marigold blossoms.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan




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