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Recent Examples of wig
Outside Levi’s Stadium Inoke, 35, and Siesia Tonga, 30, both of Salt Lake City, UT, showed up to the Super Bowl in full Founding Fathers outfits, featuring white powdered wigs and 1700s suits, to support their brother Khyiris Tonga, who is playing for the Patriots.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
In the ad, a regular guy (Guy Fieri in a wig) interacts with Bosch's products and transforms into Guy Fieri.
—Sarah Whitten,sara Salinas,sarah Jackson,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026
Celebrity hair stylist Chris Appleton let Barrymore experiment with an all-gray look with a wig.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
Instead, at 39,he’s wearing fake tattoos and a wig and jumping out of windows.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
In the ad, a regular guy (Guy Fieri in a wig) interacts with Bosch's products and transforms into Guy Fieri.
—Sarah Whitten,sara Salinas,sarah Jackson,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026
Celebrity hair stylist Chris Appleton let Barrymore experiment with an all-gray look with a wig.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
Instead, at 39,he’s wearing fake tattoos and a wig and jumping out of windows.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wig
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In a match between the heavyweights Jarrell Miller and Kingsley Ibeh, an uppercut from Ibeh caused Miller’s hairpiece to flap back like the lid on a box.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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But one of the punches knocked Miller’s head backward, and his hairpiece popped upward from the front, revealing a large bald spot that covered most of his head.—
Isabel Yip,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Alongside his caption, Miller shared an AI video of him driving a car with the roof off while his toupee lifted off his head in the wind.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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One of Miller’s cornermen seemingly notified him of the situation just as the third round was about to begin, prompting the 318-pounder to stand, shrug to the crowd cartoonishly and peel the toupee off his head.—
Matt Moret,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Wig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wig. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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