Example Sentences
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Thankfully, “Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World,” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through April 26, remedies that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
Imagine the Los Angeles that might exist if it weren’t encased in a concrete crust: Contours of soft earth rather than rigid asphalt.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
As Joseph Baker, the co-author of the book “American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems,” put it: “People are outside of organized religions, but they still have this supernatural interest.”
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Contours are drawn at ± 2σ, where σ = 17.7 μJy per beam.
From Nature • May 15, 2018
Contours altered, soil altered, even the rock beneath it, but the desolation never; they always worked in desolation and thunder.
From Tales of War by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
