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mustache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash] / ˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ /




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There was something about the black clothes, the sword, the pencil mustache and mask over the eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

A charismatic speaker with a white mustache, Bhagwat raised laughs with the Chicago audience by saying Hindus don’t want to dominate; instead, he said, “We have to learn to work together separately.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Curry was the playfully crooked Rooster Hannigan, and had a standout scene singing and dancing in a pencil mustache and slicked back hair to “Easy Street,” alongside Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Yet in the modern era, no American president has gone about in mustache or beard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Mr. Bangs was tugging on his thick mustache and watching me with a worried expression.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

It remains to be seen whether “Kitchen Undercover” will rely on prosthetics, fake mustaches or merely the subtler costume of the unrecognized employee.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Mexican filmmaker Camila Aurora has released a short parody of “Emilia Pérez” that mocks all things French, from baguettes and berets to wine and thin mustaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

Some of the women donned fake mustaches that mimicked Rome’s as they all toyed with possible explanations for what they had found.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024

Masterji Thakur put his face beside the portrait of Louis Villarreal to compare twitching mustaches.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton




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