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Recent Examples of pleachPool Garden Linden trees are pleached and underplanted with liriope, while boxwood hedges frame pink annuals.—Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Box braids, to cite just one example of African hair braiding, take a long time to perfect.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
The actor wore her dark hair pulled to one side and braided down, stopping the braid with a few inches to spare and leaving the rest of her hair loose.
The key difference is that Bora Bora braids are typically plaited in line with the existing length of your natural hair, allowing the remainder of the curly human hair to billow outwards and form the bulk of the hairstyle.
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Ranyechi Udemezue,
Vogue,
29 July 2024
Even Kim Kardashian’s tousled platinum hair was loosely plaited into a fishtail braid in the back.
The 42-year-old grew up in the town of Chamonix in the French Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc, where for generations his family had plied the range’s granite and glaciers as Alpine guides.
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Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
And now, Musk is plying his friendship with Italian leaders and pulling at the threads that bind the continent's next big ambition in space, a version of the Starlink constellation.
In 2023 alone, over 1,000 lives were lost to overdoses, with fentanyl implicated in most cases — underscoring the urgent need for bold, compassionate solutions to save lives and rebuild communities.
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Pradeep Thomas,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Jan. 2025
Shortly after President pardoned two Washington, D.C. police officers, a 20-year-old Black man, questions swirled about whether Trump would pardon other officials implicated in high-profile cases of violence against African Americans.
This red could not be more luscious, with ribbons of bright strawberry woven through the darker auburn base, catching the light from all those flashing cameras.
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Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
24 Jan. 2025
The Manik method starts with raw cotton, which is then hand-dyed and woven into beautiful fabrics.
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