brunette

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It shows Yuriy, serious and composed besides Valeria, a brunette with an infectious smile who resembles her mother Lyudmyla.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

ChatGPT, perhaps drawing on data showing that there are far more dark-haired people in the world than blondes, decided to make her a brunette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

Introduced by our mutual friends, she was pitched to me as “tall and blond, with curly hair,” a historically winning phenotype for me, even if that “blond” mention was an elaborate brunette farce.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024

Maya stood out in every single photo, the one brunette in a family of redheads, her smile getting less and less full over the years.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway