a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area
the cancer patient started wearing a wig after losing all of her hair from chemotherapy
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Recent Examples of wigJohn Clancy provides orchestrations, with music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick and wigs and hair design by Tommy Kurzman.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025 Watch Stone discuss aliens, wigs, and more in the video above.—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025 Plus, what’s with the buckles on the shoes and the hose and the waistcoats and the powdered wigs?—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025 That was a no brainer, Stone explained in a virtual press conference, since the alternative was an obvious bald wig.—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wig
This time around, Faracy wore a gilded replica of the look, consisting of a gold corset with a gold cone bra, an assortment of gold chains, gold hoop earrings, and a gold hairpiece adorning her high ponytail.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
The smaller section was rolled at an angle, and the larger portion looks like it was rolled around a hairpiece or a hair donut for added lift, volume, and shape.
These things are — according to Torres’s theories — navy blue, and the threat of that color’s oppressive manifestations lurks in the show like an under-the-bed monster wearing a toupee and a bad suit.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Robert Greenberg, a former hairstylist who tried to get rich off of everything from mail-order toupees to roller skates, founded the company with his son Michael in 1992 and the family still owns a 12% stake.
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