acrylic

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Recent Examples of acrylic Many of those operations used petrochemical products and solvents such as resins, adhesives and acrylic compounds like methyl methacrylate, the chemical at the center of the Orange County crisis. Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026 More elaborate acrylic displays or train cases will cost $40-$60. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 May 2026 The product is widely used to manufacture a range of shatter-resistant acrylic materials such as Plexiglas, as well as resins, coatings and adhesives. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 25 May 2026 Inside, the front desk is flanked by an animatronic dire wolf and a life-size acrylic woolly mammoth peering out from what appears to be a massive block of ice. Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for acrylic
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Noun
  • The artists shared a wide variety of techniques and mediums – pastel, watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The first iteration of the lottery was won by Jeffrey Gonano, a 25-year-old man from a suburb of Pittsburgh, who won a L’Homme au Gibus (1914), also a gouache on paper.
    Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Ari Hodara, ​a 59-year-old software engineer from Paris, won Tête de femme (1941), or head of a woman, a gouache-on-paper portrait, according to Reuters.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The chain capitalized on the popularity, releasing a $3 pastel mini tote on April 8, 2025 also flew off the shelves.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Falling somewhere between a fresh pastel and a polished neutral, the hue brings a sense of lightness without sacrificing sophistication.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Adam and Eve After Cranach, 1971, an acrylic diptych modeled on Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1526 painting of the titular couple.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Thawing ice along a riverbank, the shallows capturing the reflection of one of the grandchildren; the burning flame of a wick disappearing into a birthday cake; the deep, dark tunnel of a fleeting set of train tracks, as piercing as the endless blue eyes of the toddler in the diptych beside it.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, fashion illustrator Talia Zoref was on hand and busy creating aquarelle sketches for guests to take home.
    Camila Hennessy, Vogue, 5 July 2017

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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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