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
“People think I’m on drugs because of my appearance,” says Joe H., a lanky, long-haired brunette holding an electric guitar on his lap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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
Inside the car, detectives found a brunette wig and a rubber mask resembling a white male that the law enforcement source said looked realistic enough to be “movie quality.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
“I want a brunette wig. That way I can change my personality.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
This ongoing trend of obsessing over everything fall has to offer was first made popular by a viral photo of two brunettes with matching hairdos, makeup and suede booties.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023
She now plays a somewhat wider range of characters — shrewd blondes, guileless brunettes — and she struggles less.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2019
And, speaking of dark, I knew he had a thing for dark-haired girls because all of his girlfriends had been brunettes.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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