acrylic

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Recent Examples of acrylic The team has created a chair, a side table, a lamp, and even a backpack, with plywood and acrylic panels sandwiched between a range of fabrics. New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2025 At the Pace gallery in Chelsea in early April, the artist and musician David Byrne was in a stairwell, lying on the floor and drawing on the wall with a black acrylic marker. Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 Michael Persico/Courtesy Conrad New York Downtown A Minimalist Soho Space for Paloma Wool Sculptural clothing racks made from raw stainless steel and cloudy sanded acrylic sheets are part installation part fixture. Morgan Meier, Curbed, 14 Apr. 2025 What’s more, the cream lids are topped with a star encased in clear acrylic. Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for acrylic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrylic
Noun
  • The space includes a large coat closet and is adorned with handcrafted, pastel watercolor wallpaper with gold metallic flecks.
    Vivian Marino, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Features beginner-friendly watercolor tutorials that can guide your sessions.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Indeed, secrets is the operative word, applied not only to these gifted designers but to the Petit Palais, whose collection of some 5,600 jewelry sketches and gouache renderings is barely known, even to specialists.
    Ruth Peltason, Air Mail, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When Devon boards the ferry bound for her sister’s place of employment, a fictional island clearly meant to evoke moneyed havens like Martha’s Vineyard, she’s surrounded by such a ubiquitous uniform of Lilly Pulitzer pastels that the effect is Stepford-esque.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2025
  • In a world of pastel, Devin goes to that delicious blood red.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The lithograph diptych is by America Martin and was also sourced through 1stDibs.
    Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The diptych begins with an artist onstage for a public conversation, then floats in and out of internal monologues and exchanges between the artist and his censor.
    Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025

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“Acrylic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrylic. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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