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Recent Examples of sepia
Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
All the group has to go on is an old, wallet-sized sepia photograph.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Hermanus again shows highly polished craftsmanship, adding the subtlest hint of sepia tones to evoke the period in the early sections, but never to the point where the characters compete with the settings.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
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Adjective
Cyclists have always adapted to a variety of terrain, as those old, sepia-tone photographs of the Tour de France from the early 1900s will attest.
—Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
All the group has to go on is an old, wallet-sized sepia photograph.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
Noun
Tinting one series cobalt blue and the other a cloudy sepia, and leaving both unframed, Mikhailov emphasizes his prints’ rough physicality—an immediacy perfectly suited to the works’ immersion in urban despair.
—The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
Hermanus again shows highly polished craftsmanship, adding the subtlest hint of sepia tones to evoke the period in the early sections, but never to the point where the characters compete with the settings.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sepia
Adjective
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Her mother sat on the living-room couch in a gray sweatshirt, holding a pink Stanley cup.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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The shots came from a gray Dodge Charger just before 7 a.m. Sheriff’s officials said a caller told dispatchers they were fired upon after yelling at the Dodge’s driver for throwing trash onto the roadway.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Her outfits strike the perfect balance of casual and cute—and this monochrome moment is easy to recreate.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
31 July 2025
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In the past, archaeologists have only been able to see poor-quality, monochrome interpretations of the tattoos on the mummies based on drawings, leaving out both the intricate designs as well as the techniques used to create them, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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The 17-mile loop road through Monument Valley is unpaved, rutted and sandy.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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The teaser poster for Fallout Season 2 was published exclusively by IGN on Friday, which shows silhouettes of The Ghoul, Lucy, Maximus and the canine Dogmeat walking in the sandy, deserted environs of the former Las Vegas, now called New Vegas.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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First observed on Aug 19, 1991, the day commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic process developed in 1837.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
30 July 2025
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And the massive collection of photographic plates the Harvard Computers used in their work began with a July 17, 1850 daguerreotype of the star Vega.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Learn more about Becky’s styling routine and check out behind-the-scenes photos from ‘Get Ready with Becky G’ presented by Garnier. Sleek & Stay To make Becky’s hair sleek and frizz-proof, her stylist applies Garnier’s Sleek and Stay Heat-Activated Serum.—
Meghan Mahar,
Billboard,
19 Aug. 2025
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Not much else is known about the new album at this point, though Welch may have dropped a few hints in a photo dump on Instagram back in early July.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Yeager’s photographs of Page, an actress-model who lived in an old house by the Miami River, turned both women into household names when Yeager was 25.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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That is the title of a striking piece of artwork hung high above the London skyline, depicting a brooding photograph of Mikel Arteta marking out something that looked like stream-of-consciousness ideas in black paint.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
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Patches of skin that appear red, white, blue, gray, yellow, purple, brown or ashen as opposed to their normal color.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Rounding out the lineup is their younger sister Daryl and her boyfriend, Joey—also in vintage-style tintype attire.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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