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Recent Examples of tintype
The image could be a tintype from a late-Victorian play about a confidence man who preys on wealthy young widows.
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Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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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Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Also on display is a tintype of an unidentified African American woman, taken by an unidentified artist around 1865.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tintype
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
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Brows were dark, thin, and slightly feathered a la Marilyn, and lips were lined with a sepia brown and finished with a slick of rose-toned lipstick.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 2025
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Washes include sepia blue, ochre blue, graphite, brown black and more.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Oct. 2025
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In 2006, researchers at Newcastle University found, in a study that became famous, that people were more likely to put money in an honesty box to pay for their coffee or tea when photographs of eyes were posted above the box.—
L. Carol Ritchie,
NPR,
7 Nov. 2025
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Paintings by Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, and Philip Taaffe adorn the walls, along with Richard Caldicott’s striking photographs of Tupperware.—
Mekita Rivas,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 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.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Argentine Football Association (AFA) said he had been diagnosed with synovitis, a swelling of the synovial membrane, with a statement including a photo of Fernandez with strapping on that knee.—
Colin Millar,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Around them is a vast monochrome expanse as far as the eye can see.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
7 Nov. 2025
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Kris practically invented dressing in monochrome.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Tintype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tintype. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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