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A small sketch of Elon Musk lurks in the foreground, but she never so much as side-eyes its frame.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
A US military ship is seen in the foreground in the Arabian Sea in April.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Throughout a prolific career that spanned decades, Saar brought issues of race and racism to the foreground in ways that were immediate and visceral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Lilliputian people in the foreground look excited—or is it terrified?—and the heavy mood feels less like a romantic outing than a prelude to volcanic eruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Voyager approaches Jupiter with the moons Io and Callisto in foreground.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Brown’s dreamlike visions of the climate and uniquely structured scenes—often with barely there foregrounds that emphasize the abstracted weather surrounding them—owe much to his mentor Ray Yoshida, as well as to Joseph Yoakum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To that end, before “Welcome to Derry” resurfaces the internet’s favorite scary clown, it foregrounds the ways that small-town charm can be an effective mask for the mundane evils we confront every day.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
At the same time, many new diagnostic methods and early-intervention therapies have been developed in recent years, which foregrounds the need to identify more risk factors for the disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023
Tedros, in contrast, is a pure villain — one Tesfaye isn’t sufficiently skilled as an actor to portray in a way that foregrounds his talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
The repeated “He,” has a sarcastic tone, and the hysteron proteron in the second sentence foregrounds this notion on which the argument turns: Is pride really a bad thing?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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