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Recent Examples of window dressingWhen window dressing takes away from that central conceit, what’s the point?—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 9 Dec. 2025 Events like these aren’t window dressing—they’re deal flow engines.—Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 To recreate the rickety window dressing, construct a frame of white lattice strips, cut boards from veneer paneling, then staple them at angles into the frame.—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025 Whether inside posh beachside resorts or cool urban havens, these stores are not merely window dressing.—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for window dressing
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facade
Noun
The city's development department provided entrepreneurs with information about city grants that support facade improvements, interior development and retail investment.
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Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
1 Feb. 2026
Catherine was the queen of self-abusing, hard-living, and heading-over-the-hill entertainment veterans — women who were trapped behind a façade of slick showbiz tics that barely covered the active volcano of psychosis bubbling right under their surface.