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Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 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

They had left behind many of the things they had salvaged from Endurance, including the scrap lumber that had made dry floors for their flimsy, canvas tents.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong