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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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A maid of honor to the queen passes the time with canvas work.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Wilder was docked a point for pushing, and both men ended up on the canvas again in the 11th, though neither incident was ruled a knockdown.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“Space,” he writes, “remains an open canvas of possibilities: not merely a source of wonder and strategic importance, but also a reflection of who we are, and perhaps what we may become.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Boys also passed a courage test by jumping down one or two stories onto a canvas or into water.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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