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Recent Examples of shornThe man in the box turns out to be Chalamet, who emerges with a shorn head in a Marty Supreme sweatsuit and strolls off the field, into a shipping container, and onto a movie junket set-up.—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Sometimes, too much product exiles moisture and nutrients, slows healthy skin processes, and even mixes company chemically, which is all risky on hairless skin.
Students often pose for graduation photos beside the oversized bald heads or rub them for good luck before exams.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
20 Oct. 2025
The peculiar requirement is an homage to Emma Stone’s character in the film, who is a bald-headed CEO who ends up kidnapped and suspected of being an alien.
Genetically identical neurons that form Meissner corpuscles for picking up vibrations in glabrous skin, for example, also form lanceolate endings for detecting hair movement in hairy skin.
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Ariel Bleicher,
Quanta Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
The result was a cityscape of relentless sheen, façades as glabrous and ageless as a starlet’s brow.
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