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paint

[peynt] / peɪnt /




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Still, protected bike lanes are harder to clean than lanes merely separated by paint and “swept” by passing cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Man 'planned paint protest at Johnson wedding party'

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Tap and hold the home screen, and select the paint brush at top left, select Add Widget, then scroll through options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But the available data paint a worrisome picture of thwarted learning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Molly waved her over, taking the palette of face paint from her.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

At the end of his book, Tan paints a beautiful picture of a visit to his parents’ home near Eaton Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

On a street in southern Israel, a graffiti artist paints a mural depicting the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "NAZA".

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The researchers say the evidence paints a different picture.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

“We deliberated carefully over those allegations, and so I would say I disagree with the way or the light in which Mr. Edwards paints his actions,” Guest said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

There were sweaters with animals on them, shirts with stripes and shirts with squares, dresses in colors as varied as Grand-grand Uncle’s paints.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

He painted a less-rosy picture of the pace of innovation in the U.S. today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Venetian Resort, at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, is already a surreal place—the interior includes an indoor St. Mark’s Square with chlorine-blue canals, old-timey lampposts, and a painted blue sky.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Speaking to reporters, Johnson painted the decision as an “attaboy” for a productive Congress and urged his fellow Republicans to sell their constituents on the good job they’re doing on Capitol Hill.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

In his closing argument, defense attorney Brian Steel painted Hester, Jones and Grant as unreliable “snitches, cooperators, rats” seeking to secure a lighter sentence by implicating Banks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

One street has five houses painted in rainbow color order.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Even in 2026, I think this painting depicts a lot of what Black women are going through today, whether it be in the workplace, navigating motherhood, navigating life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I’d go to leave, and she’d put the canvas away, beg me to come back, and as soon as I did, she’d start painting again.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

According to the show's curators, elements of Flaxman's sketches can be seen in Turner's painting called Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus – Homer's Odyssey, including outlines of horses in the sunset and the shadow of a cyclops.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"It wasn't actually something we had in mind when we were developing the exhibition, or even when we asked the National Gallery if they would lend this painting," he explained.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Except for the presence of Diana in the place of the bloody-fanged wolf, this painting was remarkably similar to the one at Ashton Place.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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