as in monochrome
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Recent Examples of sepia
China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile's Atacama Desert.
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
The Weeknd’s maze at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has an unsettling cocaine-freak-out energy that is a welcome counterbalance to mazes’ sepia tones and textbook monsters.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Benjamin wrote of the angel — a curly-haired seraph in sepia tones, arms raised in excitement or alarm — as facing the past while being driven toward the future by a storm too strong for his wings to beat against: the storm of progress.
—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Holmes accessorized with her sepia tinted aviators and a black beanie à la Timothée Chalamet à la Bob Dylan.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
The Weeknd’s maze at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has an unsettling cocaine-freak-out energy that is a welcome counterbalance to mazes’ sepia tones and textbook monsters.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Benjamin wrote of the angel — a curly-haired seraph in sepia tones, arms raised in excitement or alarm — as facing the past while being driven toward the future by a storm too strong for his wings to beat against: the storm of progress.
—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Holmes accessorized with her sepia tinted aviators and a black beanie à la Timothée Chalamet à la Bob Dylan.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sepia
Noun
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The Max streaming service has quietly launched a fresh look, ditching its shiny blue user interface for a new monochrome color palette that, either purposefully or not, evokes the longtime branding of HBO.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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The compact Light Phone III is more squarish than the previous handset, with a 3.92-inch monochrome AMOLED behind matte glass instead of the older E Ink screen.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Mar. 2025
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Full-spectrum color had been a photographic dream since the first daguerreotypes, and early moviemakers were no less determined to conjure a celluloid canvas that reflected life in all its splendor.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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The 1846 daguerreotype, which captured her in her 70s, is by photographer John Plumbe Jr., who would also create the earliest extant image of the U.S. Capitol in 1846.—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Mannion, who is also a PNW alumna, hoped her photos and story would inspire other young women.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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In Mandalay, Burma's second-largest city and close to the epicenter, the earthquake damaged part of the former royal palace and buildings, according to videos and photos released on Facebook social media.—
Christina Shaw,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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With few photographs, no clear family records, and little oral history preserved, DNA testing offers, albeit partial, answers to an individual's story.—
Abigail Dubiniecki,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Vice-President Michel Temer took over, but his tenure was shadowed by a potential scandal: a blackmailer had hacked his wife’s phone and threatened to release compromising photographs of her.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The exhibit includes tintype photographs that honor the legacy of Black families and highlight the richness of the Black community in Elgin, according to the department’s Facebook page.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Comparing an 1860s tintype with an 1890s gelatin silver studio print shows the evolution of photographic processes.—
Andrea Kaston Tange,
The Conversation,
6 May 2024
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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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