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Recent Examples of topless
That the topless king was pictured beside his married lover, Wallis Simpson, only added to the growing scandal.
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JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
The bronze statue, commissioned by the owner of baby products brand Frida and sculpted by Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark, depicts a topless woman, holding her baby in one arm, while the other rests on her hip.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 23 Oct. 2025
Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
Her photos – convivial images of women, often topless, caught in a joyful, sunny mood – have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
—Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
The bronze statue, commissioned by the owner of baby products brand Frida and sculpted by Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark, depicts a topless woman, holding her baby in one arm, while the other rests on her hip.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 23 Oct. 2025
Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
Her photos – convivial images of women, often topless, caught in a joyful, sunny mood – have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
—Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
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In 2017, Rob leaked nude photos of Chyna on Instagram.—
Sarah Jones,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The skirt featured a thigh-high slit, and her nude underwear could be seen through the slightly darker shade of purple material.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Harmlessly wandering about the village, belly and breasts exposed—at times completely naked—Pagli discomforts established codes of etiquette.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The emperor was naked, a fool who’d been had.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That image, Dreijer said in a recent Pitchfork interview, was influenced by a seminude self-portrait of the 79-year-old Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum.—
Lindsay Zoladz,
New York Times,
10 May 2023
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Investigators also found a trove of photos depicting nude and seminude young women and girls.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
11 Aug. 2019
Adjective
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Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The ensemble cast members are game and deliver spirited, crank-up-the-volume performances, notably the vamping about de Armas and the unravelling and often unclad Law.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2025
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But many people would be mortified to be caught unclad in public.—
Ian Gilligan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2023
Adjective
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During one meeting of the school board in the state's capital of Augusta Wednesday, two women undressed to protest the state's policies that allow biological males to compete in girls sports and use girls locker rooms.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The tub, shower, and vanity share the natural light streaming through the undressed window.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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