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noun

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Recent Examples of aesthetic
Adjective
Her makeup featured a clean aesthetic with a rosy lip by artist Erin Ayanian Monroe. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025 Ranging from personal essay to vérité and archival excavation, each film employs a distinct aesthetic to expose systems of control and influence—from Silicon Valley mythologies to environmental extraction and state violence. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
The 2025 Horizons section (Orizzonti) — which highlights the latest aesthetic trends in cinema with special attention to debut films — honored Mexican director David Pablos’ hauntingly original road movie En El Camino with its best film prize. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025 Aguilar spends most of her weekends manning her wooden, minimalist photo booths – a rustic aesthetic the blends in with Southern California’s hilly vistas – for brides, grooms and all their guests. Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aesthetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aesthetic
Adjective
  • They can be used in place of dill leaves or in combination with them for an attractive presentation.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Housed in a historic Germantown residence, the restaurant serves its brunch family-style, with strangers seated together at communal tables.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tate McRae hit the red carpet in a custom sheer Grecian-style white gown by Ludovic de Saint Sernin.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Deutsche Küche Apple Frangipane Tarts For an elegant dessert option, the $4 Deutsche Küche Apple Frangipane Tarts bring a European flair to the table.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Here, the atmosphere is upscale and elegant; perhaps one of the nicest Chinese dining rooms in Charlotte, despite the staff still trying to get a handle on hostess, service and wait time logistics.
    Shindy Chen, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Was the patient approach the right one?
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When China was faced with bailing out Havana, the Chinese balked, citing in an exquisite piece of historical irony Cuba’s lack of market reforms.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With many different exquisite cosmology data sets, from the cosmic microwave background to the large-scale structure of the Universe to ultra-distant supernovae, the Universe doesn’t quite add up.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her 2020 duo of albums, Folklore and Evermore, channeled the sound and sensibility of indie rock, refracting her perennial personal themes through a dark, blurry lens of fantasy and allegory.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Driving through deep water can also negatively affect a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Bondi, 59, intervened in a number of cases to alter the criteria for granting asylum in her role as the head of the immigration-court system, The Wall Street Journal reported.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Vista Ostuni will continue these efforts with automatic lighting systems; water-efficient taps; a more energy-efficient pool heating technique; and rainwater collection for low-demand landscaping.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Grow in Guilds Growing fruit trees in tree guilds is an age-old planting technique that’s quite similar to companion planting.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Aesthetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aesthetic. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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