painted

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They bought a decommissioned school bus, painted it bright red, and outfitted it with models of the proposed town, and Farahzad and Nye drove it around the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The walls around Equatorial Guinea's notorious Bata prison were freshly painted salmon-pink for Pope Leo XIV's visit Wednesday, but inside there was no masking the acrid smell of sweat and urine.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

Fahmy painted a Keith Haring-style black-and-white mural at the top of the stairs and continued onto the second-floor walls using a paintbrush taped to a broomstick.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

The piece, published by the outlet last week, painted Patel’s tenure as run through with extended, “unexplained absences.”

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

It was a map, painted in exquisitely small brushstrokes on thick vellum.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell