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close-cropped

[klohs-kropt] / ˈkloʊsˈkrɒpt /


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A woman in her 50s, with close-cropped hair, she told me she drove out this way every month or so to care for her elderly father.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Dressed in svelte black athleisure with a close-cropped haircut, the 28-year-old Lacy was less flamboyant than he’d looked in recent years, when he sported long braids and sunglasses that covered half his head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026

On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

He was as tall and thin as his master was short and round, with a thatch of close-cropped ginger hair on top of a face that was so pale it was almost paper white.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz


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