as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing
Picasso's paintings of nude art models
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as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body
the artist painted some models in the nude
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Recent Examples of nude
Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
Maroney wore a classic black tuxedo and bow tie, and Lawrence turned heads in a daring sheer nude gown with floral embroidery.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
Elliston was 14 years old in October 2023 when a classmate used an artificial intelligence program to turn innocent photos of her into realistic-looking nudes and shared them with the rest of the school.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Investigators accuse him of coercing middle school football players to perform nude exercises in a locker room and secretly photographing them in various stages of undress.
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Buchloh’s best essays romp through the history of genres—the female nude, the family portrait, the history painting, the Romantic landscape—to show how Richter’s work mines the past for the future.
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One foot was naked, and the other was frozen in its boot.—
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That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century.—
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The viewer never sees anything that graphic; there’s no Game of Thrones–style full-frontal nudity, though one does glimpse a generous amount of butt cheek.—
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The whole issue of award show expletives came to the Supreme Court twice, the last time in 2012, when the justices struck down fines on Fox Television Stations over expletives uttered by Cher and Nicole Richie during the Billboard Music Awards, as well as nudity that aired on ABC’s NYPD Blue.—
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“Nude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nude. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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