elegant
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Roberto Carlos carefully carves a skull adorned with an elegant hat into a wad of deep purple paper 50 sheets deep.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
"The handwriting is nothing like her handwriting in the original letter, which is almost a childlike scrawl. The second one is an elegant, joined-up cursive."
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The sheer technological sweetness, too—the hard problem followed by the elegant answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Plastic, prefabrication and push-button convenience suggested that mass production could bring elegant, futuristic living — and freedom from drudgery — within reach of the masses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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