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Recent Examples of topless
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the pair had been recently fired from their jobs at the North Beach club, known as the nation's first topless bar.
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Tim Fang, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
The most daring image featured a woman who was topless, except for a pair of suspenders that lay across her nipples.
—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
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Tim Fang, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
The most daring image featured a woman who was topless, except for a pair of suspenders that lay across her nipples.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
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During a fiery congressional hearing last month, Democrats excoriated Bondi over haphazard redactions in the Epstein files that exposed intimate details about victims and included nude photographs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 2026
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The luxe finish and nude base keeps these sophisticated yet bold.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The two look so similar to the naked eye that no one had questioned the classification — until biologists examined its mitochondrial genome.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
3 Mar. 2026
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And while the ’90s and early aughts had boobs, the 2020s saw the phenomenon of a new asset thanks to the fashion trend of naked dressing.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
3 Mar. 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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Officers say she was partially unclothed and had suffered numerous injuries.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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Sometimes the subjects appear undressed or in lewd positions, with their faces and bodies hidden by black boxes, though there are occasional clips where a face is visible.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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