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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
Nicole Sands, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
So just like in Impressionist paintings and old sepia photos, Parisians can once again cool off in their river.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 13 Aug. 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
From the sepia tones of Fearless (Taylor's Version) to the sparkly, eye-catching hues of The Life of a Showgirl, here's a look back at all of Taylor Swift's album covers.
—Nicole Sands, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
So just like in Impressionist paintings and old sepia photos, Parisians can once again cool off in their river.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sepia
Adjective
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Mary Anne MacLeod grew up in a suburb, a village called Tong — really just a cluster of houses, including the early 20th century squat gray stucco bungalow that was her family's home.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
14 Sep. 2025
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On one hand, companies that enable gray-zone transactions face heightened scrutiny.—
Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Similarly, a color display and a larger amount of RAM would have also added expense, so the prototype had a small 256x256 monochrome CRT driven by the ubiquitous Motorola 6845 CRTC, plus 64K of RAM.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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It is printed and abstracted in old English typeface on khaki coats and separates, and in modern monochrome on an oversized hoodie.—
Blue Carreon,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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According to Bennice, all of this flexibility helps the cephalopods to thrive in a wide range of habitats, from sandy shores to rocky reefs.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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Searching for a spectacular sandy beach?—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Flavors featured mini-chocolate-chip stracciatella, Sacher Torte, and a wide selection of sorbets.—
Debbi Kickham,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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His social media features posts of Austin at a Lakers game with his younger brother Jac, attending the wedding of his college friends, eating pasta in Italy and sharing throwback photos with his dad.—
Nasha Smith,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Miner said that without additives, the taste can be slightly chalky.—
Mira Miller,
Verywell Health,
10 Sep. 2025
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Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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Based on the hull numbers visible in the Japanese military's photographs, the Fujian's escortS were the destroyers CNS Hangzhou and CNS Jinan.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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