physiognomy

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Recent Examples of physiognomy Differences between Genovese and Costello come down to their marriages (the former to Kathrine Narducci’s Anna, the latter to Debra Messing’s Bobbie) and the physiognomy of make-up for the men’s superficial contrasts. Armond White, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025 Guston’s first comic for The Junior Times, a sparse strip drawn at age 12, introduced Little Snowball, a Black youth bearing exaggerated racial physiognomy and dialect. Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 June 2024 Her husband would catch her staring clinically at his physiognomy. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 And, of course, there was the perennial punch line of physiognomy: sight gags, sketches, and songs that depicted Jewish bodies as misshapen and absurd. Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for physiognomy
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Noun
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Noun
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    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • There were five in eight appearances.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Physiognomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physiognomy. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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