sepia

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Recent Examples of sepia The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979. Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 The tea imparts a sweet flavor that carries right through to the yolk and a sepia tint that lends an antique, marbled look to the white. Saveur Editors, Saveur, 15 Jan. 2025 The sepia sky was filled with smoke, ash was falling, and as my car rounded a bend on the 110 Freeway, another phone alert blared to evacuate the area. Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025 China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile's Atacama Desert. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sepia
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Noun
  • The camera app presents a number of camera modes – night, video, picture, beauty, 108M, portrait, panorama, a GIF maker, macro, slow-mo, QR reader, and monochrome.
    Paul Ridden May 19, New Atlas, 19 May 2025
  • The pillow’s comfy, off-white terrycloth embodies Owens’ signature aesthetic of minimalism and monochrome, elevating your everyday lounging.
    Alia Yee Noll, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • In this daguerreotype, taken by an unknown photographer around 1855, he is pictured staring directly into the camera, wearing a black double-breasted jacket with a stiff upright-collared shirt.
    Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a tap on your phone, the idea that a visual image is an absolute truth is as outdated as the daguerreotype.
    Deepti Hajela, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Marquez often shared photos of herself modeling and traveling.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • The 31-year-old new mom shared the news on social media, along with a photo of the newborn’s little foot.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Originating nearly three decades ago with scanners for nuclear sites, reality capture encompasses photogrammetry, which uses overlapping photographs to create 3D models, and lidar technology, which measures distances with laser light to generate precise point clouds.
    Ronald Bisio, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The duo found an old photograph on the property, showing three women looking directly into the camera.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena April 30, 2025 Tell us about your outfit.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
  • To a visitor’s eye, the light switch is nowhere to be found—that is, until a tintype photograph is plucked from a ledge near the front door to reveal a white plastic switch plate.
    Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2025

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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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