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paint

[peynt] / peɪnt /




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Because of this they were used in everything from plastics and paint to electrical equipment.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

As Bennett showed, the portrait we paint is indelible.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

"The cost to repair the equipment, remove the paint and assess any safety implications or wider damage will run into thousands of pounds."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

That revelation came out only after former Olympic canoeist Jeff Hearn got hit with a felony charge, apparently for picking up a piece of the pool’s peeling paint from the renovation.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

“Actually, make that three things: pay taxes, die, and paint 3F.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The underlying data, however, paints a far more encouraging picture.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Overall, the pattern of responses from advisers paints a picture of frothy optimism at a high level, coupled with a fundamental concern about the implications of policy on financial security.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

The portrait Mr. Devine paints of Mr. Sanders is sympathetic and mostly creditable on a personal level.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

In childhood, he paints an abstract picture of God in which the Almighty eerily resembles a movie camera.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Paper goods, linen that would go up in smoke, toxic paints and chemicals.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In his veto statement, Landry painted many of the exonerees as “convicted criminals” whose only interest is money.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

In August 2024, Banksy painted piranha fish on a City of London Police sentry box.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

But to show a live-action dancer partnering an animated figure in an entirely painted landscape as autumn leaves swirl in slow motion around them was another feat altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Inevitably, though, order would be enforced, and Piker would once again be painted as the enemy.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

He wore a pith helmet that had been painted to match the balloon’s bright patchwork of colors and patterns, with a small, brave flag flying on top.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

But he added: "I'm struggling and the winter is hard, but painting the mill has attracted more visitors here and helped me pay the bills."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

“It’s not like I’m painting a tiger on my house.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

In the 1930s and ’40s, three friends—all artists, one almost a generation older than the others—spent their summers here, sketching and painting the picturesque environs of America’s oldest continuously operating seaport.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

A large painting sits over the head of the table above the fireplace, of a bearded man dressed in a black robe.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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