as in outlines
a line that traces the outer limits of an object or surface
a car with flowing contours
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outlines
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Johnson is also weighing whether to keep his members out of Washington, further putting the onus on the Senate to accept his spending outlines without getting into the grit of health care coverage.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025 -
This is what passes as development these days, and what comes out of the Chad Powers process is mostly lousy, a corporate exercise in content alchemy that plays like a coloring book where the outlines are already drawn.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Contours.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contours. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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