flanking

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Flanking the Hunt likeness, the delayed but imposing 6-foot-3-inch draped caryatids represent both “Architecture” and “Painting and Sculpture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Flanking a stage near the monorail station, you’ll find a glistening white tower, the work of artist and activist Nikkolas Smith, who has adopted the term “artivist.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Flanking a path, perhaps, a row of them forms “a phalanx of vine-covered teepees.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Flanking it on one side is a platter of corn on the cob.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023

Flanking John Becker were more female faces—brown faces, peering out from the middle distance.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly