tableau
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The surrounding landscape—a moody tableau of steel-gray skies and jagged mountains—is the work of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025
But as the company grew, marketing its locations as a tableau in which to “stay awhile” ultimately meant there was a finite number of people they could sell coffee to per day.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025
It can all seem so flawless in that golden moment before the guests arrive, though the presence of actual people quickly complicates any Thanksgiving tableau.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Sitting down on a steel cot across from the stove to mull over this eerie tableau, I encounter evidence of McCandless’s presence wherever my vision rests.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing tableau
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Handmaid's Tale
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