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Recent Examples of topless
The most daring image featured a woman who was topless, except for a pair of suspenders that lay across her nipples.
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Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Mambo Hy was the agency for the girls who danced in the topless clubs.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The body paint looks as if it were done with skin-tight leggings, while the television personality appears to be topless under the paint.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
For example, Janelle Monáe has already had multiple viral transformations this Halloweek, from her turn as the Cat in the Hat to a topless tattooed vampire on Muscle Beach.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2025
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Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
Mambo Hy was the agency for the girls who danced in the topless clubs.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The body paint looks as if it were done with skin-tight leggings, while the television personality appears to be topless under the paint.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
For example, Janelle Monáe has already had multiple viral transformations this Halloweek, from her turn as the Cat in the Hat to a topless tattooed vampire on Muscle Beach.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
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The supermodel shared a series of images, including nude shots of herself.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
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One foot was naked, and the other was frozen in its boot.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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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But Grok last week started a new flood of undressed images, said BBJess, who keeps her name anonymous to avoid real-world harassment.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Brigham was discovered completely undressed in a vehicle near the alleged victim's home following the assault, police said.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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