open frame
Americannoun
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Images from the police investigation of the scene on local media showed the bike - a four-wheeled vehicle with an open frame and orange canvas roof - upside down beside a tree-lined road.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025
“But frame of reference is everything. So, have a wide and open frame of reference.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2023
The guitars’ planar composition is explicit in the proto-installation piece “The Bathers,” whose six flattened sentinels Picasso made in 1956, using more decrepit lumber and the occasional ingeniously placed open frame.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2015
So I was in an unusually open frame of mind when I stopped at the village of Willow Creek, whose China Flat Museum and Bigfoot Collection is known to sasquatch enthusiasts worldwide.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011
Perhaps it was reading the Bible that had set my mind in such an open frame, ready to believe in any bizarre possibility.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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