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Recent Examples of charcoal
Included in the Albertina show was a large-scale drawing of a mother and child rendered in charcoal on canvas; the composition was based on multiple images that Saville had made of herself and her son.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
On his charcoal gray T-shirt, a raccoon wore rainbow sunglasses and held a pride flag.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2025
Brick colored with aromas of earth, apricots, prunes, smoke, charcoal and black licorice, as well as tar and strudel.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
For charcoal grills, get the coals going nice and hot, then scoot them to one side or around the perimeter.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 June 2025
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
On his charcoal gray T-shirt, a raccoon wore rainbow sunglasses and held a pride flag.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2025
Brick colored with aromas of earth, apricots, prunes, smoke, charcoal and black licorice, as well as tar and strudel.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
For charcoal grills, get the coals going nice and hot, then scoot them to one side or around the perimeter.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for charcoal
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The open-air art show brings together more than 150 local and regional fine artists with works ranging from watercolor, oils, mixed media and photography to glasswork, woodworking, jewelry, pottery and sculpture.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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Scholars who weren’t alive for the 1793 showing at the Royal Academy mistook the setting for Rochester Castle (which Turner also painted that same year) and assumed the medium was watercolor.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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Instead, butter yellow nails are meant to be a vibrant pastel—creamy, opaque, and with just enough pigment not to veer too white or like a white manicure that has changed color over time.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
30 May 2025
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The refreshed decor is quietly luxurious, with a fresh color palette of whites and tans layered with soft blues and pastels.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The floor piece is almost like making a rubbing or an etching of that part of the footprint of the museum.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Laser etching throughout the structure allows radar signals to pass through without compromising its heat-hiding abilities, according to SCMP.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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The custom bottle engraving is by Angel’s Envy Bourbon and it is priced at $55.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
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Only an engraving of Equiano’s likeness printed in the frontispiece of The Interesting Narrative remains.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 May 2025
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In Loewe’s flagship store, in Madrid, a colorful abstract aquatint by Howard Hodgkin, more than twenty feet in length, hangs opposite the main entrance.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The aquatints are presumed to be from an original Bodmer collection.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
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Forty-two line drawings and acrylic works on canvas — including some darkly amusing meditations on stupid humans moving through modern life — will be on view in Martin’s first solo exhibition.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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On the second floor of the prestigious Pace Gallery in Manhattan hung white-on-white abstract paintings and what appeared to be line drawings of rocks.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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“Charcoal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charcoal. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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