topless

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Recent Examples of topless The Grammy Award-winning singer opted to go topless beneath the jacket, heightening the overall look’s sensual appeal. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025 Any nude and topless scenes must have prior authorization under the rules of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the suit said. David K. Li, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025 Santa Rosa police say two people have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Mark Calcagni, the general manager of San Francisco’s famous Condor Club, a North Beach landmark that bills itself as the nation’s first topless bar. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025 The club, a North Beach landmark known as the nation’s first topless bar, had been Calcagni’s professional home for years. Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for topless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
  • The supermodel shared a series of images, including nude shots of herself.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The request came after allegations surfaced that Reid had reposted nude photos of men years earlier on a Tumblr account linked to his social media.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The system uses the infrared wavelength—invisible to the naked eye—as opposed to visible light to prevent the signals from interfering with the residual peripheral vision the subjects still have.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Jenner offered a peek into her beachy surroundings by sharing pictures of a cloudy sky, ripples of water hitting the sand, and herself sitting naked in front of a clear blue ocean.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Investigators also found a trove of photos depicting nude and seminude young women and girls.
    Fox News, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But many people would be mortified to be caught unclad in public.
    Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 20 Nov. 2025.

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