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Recent Examples of pinup girl
In terms of blush Gonzalez is known for giving her clients a watercolored romantic cheek inspired by Alberto Vargas’s pinup girl paintings.
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
The bangs weren't cut straight across like most retro baby bangs, which tend to skew more ‘50s pinup girl than ’50s movie princess.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
Bey went full pinup girl for a day aboard a boat with her husband Jay-Z, covering her hair in a white silk bandana tied under her chin and pairing it with a matching white mini sundress and 1950s-style white cat-eye sunglasses.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 June 2024
There are surprising new discoveries to be found too, including an audio diary podcast following fascinating subjects like an octogenarian pinup girl and an investigation of a gas attack on a furry convention.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 May 2024
Nearby, Pierson, one of the band’s singer-songwriters, was working the flippers on a machine called Scared Stiff, whose back box flashed a grinning pinup girl.
—Mina Tavakoli, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
But advancing to the next room—a cell with a set of bunk beds, some books, a deck of cards, and what appeared to be a poster of the pinup girl Bettie Page—required a hint from a short man in a gas mask playing a prison guard.
—The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2021
On its screen was not any sort of equation or tactical diagram but rather a rendering of a pinup girl.
—Clio Chang, New York Times, 6 July 2021
Folks driving through the historic Brooke Smith neighborhood can’t miss the larger than life mural, featuring a rocket, blonde pinup girl and a spaceship, facing Cavalcade Street.
—Zach McKenzie, Chron, 15 June 2021
Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
The bangs weren't cut straight across like most retro baby bangs, which tend to skew more ‘50s pinup girl than ’50s movie princess.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
Bey went full pinup girl for a day aboard a boat with her husband Jay-Z, covering her hair in a white silk bandana tied under her chin and pairing it with a matching white mini sundress and 1950s-style white cat-eye sunglasses.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 June 2024
There are surprising new discoveries to be found too, including an audio diary podcast following fascinating subjects like an octogenarian pinup girl and an investigation of a gas attack on a furry convention.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 May 2024
Nearby, Pierson, one of the band’s singer-songwriters, was working the flippers on a machine called Scared Stiff, whose back box flashed a grinning pinup girl.
—Mina Tavakoli, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
But advancing to the next room—a cell with a set of bunk beds, some books, a deck of cards, and what appeared to be a poster of the pinup girl Bettie Page—required a hint from a short man in a gas mask playing a prison guard.
—The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2021
On its screen was not any sort of equation or tactical diagram but rather a rendering of a pinup girl.
—Clio Chang, New York Times, 6 July 2021
Folks driving through the historic Brooke Smith neighborhood can’t miss the larger than life mural, featuring a rocket, blonde pinup girl and a spaceship, facing Cavalcade Street.
—Zach McKenzie, Chron, 15 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinup girl
Noun
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Gadot, the magazine’s cover girl, brought the booze to a private residence near Gramercy Park.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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The prosecutor behind Elizabeth Holmes' guilty verdict said the entrepreneur's fall from Silicon Valley's cover girl to a felon serves as a cautionary tale.—
Julia Bonavita,
Fox News,
9 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The bathing beauty revue served as a post Labor Day festivity that garnered many city visitors.—
Brittany Chambers,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2021
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The Coen Brothers lovingly send up everyone from famous gossip columnist Louella Parsons to bathing beauty Esther Williams.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2020
Noun
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Culpo previously dated singer Nick Jonas, who’s now married to actor Priyanka Chopra (Miss World 2000) and football veteran Tim Tebow, who is now married to South African beauty queen Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe 2017).—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2025
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Image Blue, 40, a former model and beauty queen from Apple Valley, Calif., once doubted her path in opera, dispirited by a wave of rejections early in her career.—
Javier C. Hernández,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Pinup girl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinup%20girl. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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