variants
also canvass
as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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Williams’ ability to maintain his artist’s beret and paint palette to make magic happen on an open canvas will be key.
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Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
Instead of applying thick globs of paint to the canvas, Turner painted multiple layers of a thin, watery oil paint mixture.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
The problem was that developers needed a bigger canvas, and the Switch’s limitations had troubling accommodating those ambitions.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
But here, King and Flanagan do it without a heavy hand on the macabre, even though the initial canvas is only a short-story format.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 6 June 2025
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Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
Instead of applying thick globs of paint to the canvas, Turner painted multiple layers of a thin, watery oil paint mixture.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
The problem was that developers needed a bigger canvas, and the Switch’s limitations had troubling accommodating those ambitions.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
But here, King and Flanagan do it without a heavy hand on the macabre, even though the initial canvas is only a short-story format.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
Noun
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Orlik used to glimpse Warhol paintings on the walls inside.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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In Wertheimer’s painting, Agrippina’s friend and attendant Acerronia Polla clings to her for dear life as the opulent ship built to fall apart is doing its dirty work.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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