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Recent Examples of tuftsLast May at the Cannes Film Festival, Cruz sported Chanel’s contemporary elegance, wearing a black gown with an asymmetrical cut and tufts of black fabric on the shoulder and right thigh.—
Erin Wisti,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2026 The tufts on Gonzo’s head have always been called feathers rather than hair, and his longtime girlfriend, Camilla, is a chicken.—
Niranjana Rajalakshmi,
Popular Science,
24 Sep. 2026 In the near distance a great grey boulder rose above the red tufts.—Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2026 With all the hair growing out from his sides, his beard and going up into these bushy tufts at the top.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2026 Wire cables, arranged in clusters across a gallery floor, conjure tufts of grass.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Sep. 2026 Towering ears with wispy tufts, massive paws, a shaggy coat and a tail that seems built to wrap around its body like a scarf.—
Pat Mueller,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2026 Giant trees with fluffy white seed tufts surround the aptly named Cottonwood Inn Bed and Breakfast, which has six rooms plus a carriage house within walking distance of Empire Beach.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
24 June 2026 Golden silk spiders have a more reddish yellow abdomen with circular patterns as well as tufts of hair on the legs.—
Eva Flowe
june 4,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
Like Rome, Istanbul was built on seven hills, six of which are visible from the hotel.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Nov. 2026
The route passes through neighborhoods including NoDa and Plaza Midwood, offering lively pockets of support but also quieter stretches, awkward turns and hills that can feel particularly unforgiving late in the race.
In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, on the morning of March 11, 2013, something lurked just below the surface of a young Afghan man, a boy, really.
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Ron Farina,
Hartford Courant,
1 Nov. 2026
This will be especially true in the foothills of the Central Valley and up into the mountains, where showers will be more widespread throughout Saturday as cool marine air collides with the Sierra and turns to rain.
Surrounding this former Franciscan convent were orchards and open fields and Native American burial mounds.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Oct. 2026
Spanning nearly 100 acres, Tavşanlı Höyük is one of the region’s most extensive Bronze Age mounds, and contains remnants of local Anatolian communities dating as far back as 8,000 years.