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Recent Examples of shavenUnlike the full beard and mustache that Kelce sported a few days earlier during a July 31 training session, his face was completely shaven except for a thick mustache.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
3 Aug. 2026 The Texas Department of Criminal Justice also released a new photo of Anthony, 19, in which he's seen sporting a shaven head and wearing a sleeveless tunic.—
Tristan Maglunog,
ABC News,
11 June 2026 But her career has been marred by high-profile incidents — including being photographed in 2007 with a freshly shaven head hitting a car with an umbrella.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
13 Apr. 2026 The man had brown eyes, short hair, was clean shaven and had a semiautomatic handgun on his waistband, police said.—
Jessica Flores,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Mar. 2026 Reiner wore a brown jumpsuit and his head was shaven.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2026 They were stripped, shaven and sent to overflowing barracks.—
Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026 Visibly thin, head shaven and still in a gray jumpsuit, Ibrahim wiped tears away as he was embraced by family members shortly after his release in videos taken by the family.—Arkansas Online,
28 Nov. 2025 Visibly thin, head shaven and still in a grey jumpsuit, Ibrahim wiped tears away as he was embraced by family members shortly after his release in videos taken by the family.—NPR,
28 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaven
hairless
Adjective
Her boyfriend got a hairless cat, a guy pretending to be Wolverine, and a recipe for butter-chicken macaroni and cheese.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
2 Aug. 2026
Every mammal has borders between haired and hairless skin, and those borders are drawn early, in the embryo, when skin cells decide whether to build a hair follicle.