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Recent Examples of au naturel But this is just the latest sign that pubic hair styles are swinging back toward au naturel. Erika W. Smith, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2025 Adding in pebbles gives it an au naturel aesthetic. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024 Herring Cove Beach is a bit more social, with a snack bar, a summer concert series, and separate areas favored by gay men, lesbians and those who prefer to sunbathe au naturel. Brett Sokol, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2024 In the years that followed, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Pamela Anderson, Taraji P. Henson, Eva Mendes, Dennis Rodman, Olivia Munn, Kim Basinger, Ireland Basinger-Baldwin and other high-profile personalities modeled in the campaign au naturel. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for au naturel
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Adjective
  • Uranus, Neptune and Saturn will also be in the sky, though the former two are impossible to see with the naked eye and the latter difficult.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Most of them are still scary quick, skinny and now naked.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • One of the images from the artwork reportedly includes a nude shot of Lorde, with the photo showing the crotch of an individual wearing see-through pants.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 3 July 2025
  • Prosecutors say Snow threatened to harm the woman’s kids and later threatened to send nude pictures of the woman to her employer.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

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“Au naturel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/au%20naturel. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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