topless

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Recent Examples of topless But the topless sports car in previous models had several supporting roles. James Raia, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026 Prince William and Kate Middleton were extremely mad at the press in 2012 over a topless photo scandal. Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 7 Mar. 2026 Continue reading … PALACE FURY — Prince William was 'ready to go to war with the press' over Kate Middleton’s topless photos scandal. FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026 In Los Angeles, dancers at the topless bar Star Garden became the only unionized group of strippers in the country. Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for topless
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Adjective
  • Monroe went from notable to notorious when, in 1952, journalist Aline Mosby first reported that a pinup calendar—featuring a ravishing blonde nude spread across red velvet—was in fact a photograph of the burgeoning star.
    Joshua John Miller, Vanity Fair, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Their daughter was bullied by fake nude images at school.
    Bethany Bruner, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The image was captured through the window of the Orion spacecraft on Monday evening as the Artemis II crew conducted a flyby of the moon — becoming the first humans to see some parts of the moon's far side with the naked eye and traveling farther from Earth than any other humans in history.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Often nearly invisible to the naked eye, microplastics have insidiously found their way into people’s lungs, arterial plaques and brains through food, air and water, researchers have found.
    Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026
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
  • Police responding to a burglary report found Thiam unresponsive, unclothed and suffering from severe head injuries on the 2400 block of Federal Street on Nov. 10, 2025.
    Laura Fay, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The film begins with Bardot, then 22 and playing a restless orphan living in Saint-Tropez, lying unclothed on her stomach.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 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
  • Raasch remains in custody on 12 counts of videotaping an undressed person and three counts of eavesdropping.
    James Taylor, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The 37-year-old Sacramento man was arrested on suspicion of three counts of eavesdropping, a felony charge, along with 12 counts of misdemeanor photographing or videotaping an undressed person in a private area, jail records show.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026

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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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