paint
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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
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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
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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
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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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