contour
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Yes, the contour palette is back, though Patrick says “no-makeup makeup” is still very much here.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Sometimes they are used to contour or shape the nose or lips.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
And even that contour was ever-changing, different depending on what form Mansfield took on to please the world.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
It’s one of three geometric abstractions Davis made, their shapes based on the map contour of a battleground state in the revolutionary election year that brought Barack Obama to the presidency.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
He was strapped to a yellow contour chair in a white chamber aboard a flying saucer, which was bound for Tralfamadore.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Vocabulary lists containing contour
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 3
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