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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

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

Mr. Galanis sports a dark close-cropped beard and often wears either polos or Cameo-branded shirts and baseball caps.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

His- eyes were sunk in deep pits, his close-cropped beard no more than a shadow across his hollow cheeks and bony jawbone.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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