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Recent Examples of raven
Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 18 July 2024
Keeping her dress and its dramatic train the centerpiece of her entire ensemble, Perry opted to wear her raven black hair down with natural waves.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 25 June 2024
Created by celebrity colorist Matt Rez, honeyed ribbon highlights like these are very popular right now–just see Rihanna, who also recently swapped her raven colour for a similar tone.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
The work in question was Nocturne in Black and Gold—The Falling Rocket, a diffuse rendering in jade greens and raven blacks, depicting London’s Cremorne Gardens.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
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Adjective
Usha Vance, wife to Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, is bucking the norm on one account: Her long, raven bob has visible streaks of gray.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 18 July 2024
Keeping her dress and its dramatic train the centerpiece of her entire ensemble, Perry opted to wear her raven black hair down with natural waves.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 25 June 2024
Created by celebrity colorist Matt Rez, honeyed ribbon highlights like these are very popular right now–just see Rihanna, who also recently swapped her raven colour for a similar tone.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
The work in question was Nocturne in Black and Gold—The Falling Rocket, a diffuse rendering in jade greens and raven blacks, depicting London’s Cremorne Gardens.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raven
Adjective
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Alba accessorized with a black velvet bow around her waist and a handbag from the Italian label.Violet Goldstone, WWD, 15 Dec. 2024
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Hang out at the famous black sand beach or meander the six miles of trails through ancient sites and pictographs.Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
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Astronomers Reveal First Image Of The Black Hole At Center Of The Milky Way By Tom Howarth Science Reporter (Nature) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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While pimento cheese, gumbo, and Grandma’s buttermilk biscuits will always be delicious and devoured down to the very last crumb no matter where they're served, good food is certainly more fun to eat in a beautiful space.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2024
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Designed in Thiers, France—known to blade aficionados as the knife capital of the world—the saber features an ebony wood handle and can be engraved with a custom name or date.Sophie Dodd, Bon Appétit, 10 Dec. 2024
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The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out.Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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In 2019, one edition that sold for $190,000 at Art Basel Miami was wolfed down by performance artist David Datuna.George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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Then tune in to your breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly through your nose.Melanie Mannarino, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
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State health officials warn that drinking or accidentally inhaling raw milk infected with H5N1 could lead to illness.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Now revitalized, Madeline confronts Helen, who has also gulped the elixir, and wild smackdowns and realignments follow.Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel per second, the Super Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop a brilliant plume of white-hot flame and a churning cloud of exhaust.William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Shanahan scoffed at last week’s ProFootballTalk.com suggestion he could be sought in a trade as the Bears’ next coach.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Even in the north, pro-slavery sympathizers scoffed at the idea of limiting the institution any further.TIME, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Raven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raven. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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