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You can see that time-bending mash-up in the costumes, with some folks in bright plastic wigs and others in horns and mohawks and dreadlocks like 21st century cavemen.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

From lappet-faced vultures with nine-foot wingspans to long-crested eagles with spiky mohawks, Africa’s raptors are undeniably spectacular birds.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

Corporate policies ban barbecues, spontaneous après-ski parties, and mohawks or long beards on lift operators.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023

“His personality was so colorful, and the mohawks and the tattoos and the way he talked, everyone would say, ‘You are a wrestler,’” Mr. Stein recalled.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Franco and I commiserate about how St. Mark’s Place is a zoo these days with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd wearing fuchsia mohawks and safety pins through their cheeks.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García