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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
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Dodds told The Oregonian that she was also inspired by the 2003 film Calendar Girls, which is based on a true story about a pair of friends posed nude for a calendar to raise funds for a local hospital after one of their husbands died of cancer.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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The gown, designed by the French fashion house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry, also featured a nude bodice with a black chantilly lace overlay.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
29 Jan. 2026
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These pioneering astronomers relied on naked-eye observations to understand the cosmos.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
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The Grammys red carpet is underway, and a couple stars are offering their takes on the naked dressing trend.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Feb. 2026
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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
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Frye is charged with one count each of capturing/distributing an image of an unclothed person and using a computer to commit a crime.—
Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
25 Nov. 2025
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Though public nakedness isn’t completely gone, many of the everyday spots where Americans once encountered unclothed bodies—locker rooms, school showers, public pools, bathhouses—have either vanished or shifted away from collective nudity.—
Jacob Beckert,
The Atlantic,
13 Nov. 2025
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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
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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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The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing xAI, alleging the company’s Grok AI chatbot created images of her undressed.—
Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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