Venus
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Former world number one Venus Williams lost her 16th singles match in a row as she was beaten by an opponent 28 years younger at the Guangzhou Open.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“So much of the history of art is the anonymity of women, whether she’s a Madonna, Venus or a nude bather,” says art historian Katy Hessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Eventual champion Alexander Zverev finished past 1am in three of his first five matches, while Venus Williams finished her first-round match at 2am.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The whole greenhouse came to life as vines tangled poxies, gigantic Venus flytraps gulped down demons, and trees swatted the waves of flies filling the air.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his two Venuses.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
The chaos of three time zones and daylight saving couldn’t stop us from deconstructing the lens of art history, which, McCormack argues, wants to confine women to four categories: Venuses, mothers, damsels or monsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
For now, studying Venus up close may be the only route to reliable estimates of which is more common in the cosmos: Earths or Venuses.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2021
Like his sad-eyed Venuses who float just beyond reality, this young man has his mind on the infinite.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020
There remain the two famous Venuses of Titian.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
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