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Recent Examples of acrylic
Many people use acrylics because their own nails don’t grow well or break off easily.
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Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 26 May 2025
As The New York Times recounted in an article published on May 20, Massachusetts artist Ryan McFee decided to paint the image using acrylic and spray paint.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 20 May 2025
The unique construction looks impressive, but Audio-Technica also says acrylic provides exceptional resonance control, minimizing unwanted vibrations for clearer playback.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The suspect had white acrylic nails on three fingers on her right hand and wore a glove on her left hand, police said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
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Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 26 May 2025
As The New York Times recounted in an article published on May 20, Massachusetts artist Ryan McFee decided to paint the image using acrylic and spray paint.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 20 May 2025
The unique construction looks impressive, but Audio-Technica also says acrylic provides exceptional resonance control, minimizing unwanted vibrations for clearer playback.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The suspect had white acrylic nails on three fingers on her right hand and wore a glove on her left hand, police said.
—Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrylic
Noun
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The open-air art show brings together more than 150 local and regional fine artists with works ranging from watercolor, oils, mixed media and photography to glasswork, woodworking, jewelry, pottery and sculpture.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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Scholars who weren’t alive for the 1793 showing at the Royal Academy mistook the setting for Rochester Castle (which Turner also painted that same year) and assumed the medium was watercolor.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
Noun
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One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Indeed, secrets is the operative word, applied not only to these gifted designers but to the Petit Palais, whose collection of some 5,600 jewelry sketches and gouache renderings is barely known, even to specialists.—
Ruth Peltason,
Air Mail,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Blue Water House Overdose on quirky, pastel, Key-West-meets-knickknack-store vibes by booking one of the 10 whimsical suites at this bed-and-breakfast situated a few steps from the beach.—
Tim Neville,
Travel + Leisure,
15 June 2025
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The firm is established as a go-to for legendary gentlemen in real life and on the big screen, from Winston Churchill’s Siren Suit, which enabled the prime minister to get presentable in a hurry during WWII air raids, to Robert Redford’s plethora of pastel shirting in The Great Gatsby.—
Naomi Rougeau,
Robb Report,
11 June 2025
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The lithograph diptych is by America Martin and was also sourced through 1stDibs.—
Juliet Izon,
Architectural Digest,
12 Mar. 2025
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The diptych begins with an artist onstage for a public conversation, then floats in and out of internal monologues and exchanges between the artist and his censor.—
Philip Tinari,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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