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silhouette

[sil-oo-et] / ˌsɪl uˈɛt /


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“I think there is more runway for the silhouette in the next year or two,” Goldstein said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

It’s backed by a mission-style silhouette tiled with an urn overflowing with foliage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Then, if I dive deeper into Japanese culture, I think about the most iconic silhouette, which for me is a kimono.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Hanging there in the air, he looks like the famous Michael Jordan silhouette.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

He took a photo of them on the slope, small silhouettes against the snow.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Toreno Winn, stylist, photographer and creative director, is drawn to the experimental qualities of CDG, Junya Watanabe and Sacai, with playful proportions and unexpected silhouettes defining his collection.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The label said the collection sought to upend "traditional notions of chic" and rework historical silhouettes.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

“For her, we have the hottest shoes and silhouettes in the market,” Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden said on the company’s earnings call last month.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

On all sides he could see only the dark, slender silhouettes of trees, as if he were in a vast cage.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi

The DJ was silhouetted by a large window display of a gigantic, human-sized plastic re-creation of Raising Cane’s chicken tenders and crinkle-cut fries being dipped into a tub of Cane’s Sauce.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Behind them the water is a luminescent strip of blue, abutting a silhouetted skyline in which many of the buildings belch smoke; a few of the industrial structures spew fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

On a city bridge, Simone Baumeister photographed an orb-weaver spider silhouetted against traffic lights.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

A thin wake spread like a giant V behind the departing creature until it became a silhouetted speck, finally disappearing.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

“The glare and the sunlight was kind of silhouetting him, so I didn’t see his face,” the witness, Capt. Neda K. Othman of the U.S.

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2022

Occasionally he would lean forward, silhouetting himself entirely but for some unruly wisps of gray hair, which glowed like a nimbus.

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2020

The photo captured Watkins’s image by silhouetting his head against an illuminated tree.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2015

You see it's enough to bring tears to the eyesby silhouetting trees,winter boughs spidery on mist-like white skiestwitched in a breeze.

From The Guardian Feb. 18, 2013

Tally gazed down at the familiar skyline, the slender trails of fireworks silhouetting the party towers and mansions.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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