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Recent Examples of window dressing
When window dressing takes away from that central conceit, what’s the point?
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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
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for window dressing
facade
Noun
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The city's development department provided entrepreneurs with information about city grants that support facade improvements, interior development and retail investment.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Window dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/window%20dressing. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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