as in cosmetologist
a person whose job is to give beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
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Recent Examples of beautician
The beautician puts white stickers on Lina’s moles, explaining that the laser will burn only dark things.
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Elif Batuman, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
While Bobby is pretty heavy-handed in its message and delivery, any child of the ’90s would consider its standout scene to be the one between Moore’s Virginia and Sharon Stone’s beautician, Miriam.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
LaFleur has a beautician who comes in to care for residents in her memory care home.
—Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
Estimated to be worth around $200 million and accommodating 36 guests, the ample amenities include a cinema, a fully equipped onboard hospital, two full-time beauticians, a business center, and a spa.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024
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Elif Batuman, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
While Bobby is pretty heavy-handed in its message and delivery, any child of the ’90s would consider its standout scene to be the one between Moore’s Virginia and Sharon Stone’s beautician, Miriam.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
LaFleur has a beautician who comes in to care for residents in her memory care home.
—Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 21 Feb. 2025
Estimated to be worth around $200 million and accommodating 36 guests, the ample amenities include a cinema, a fully equipped onboard hospital, two full-time beauticians, a business center, and a spa.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beautician
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From reducing the number of training hours required to earn a living as a licensed cosmetologist to streamlining housing regulations (estimated to shave $24,000 off the construction cost of a new house and enable construction professionals to work much faster), working people are coming out ahead.—
Patrick A. McLaughlin,
Boston Herald,
11 Aug. 2025
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Her son, now 20, is studying to be a nurse, while her daughter, 15, wants to be a cosmetologist.—
Ryan Stowers,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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If all that counts is inward essence, what the hell were those teams of makeup artists, coiffeurs, and cinematographers employed by the major studios, in the golden age, doing all day?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2024
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Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.—
Elizabeth Stone,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2024
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“Beautician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beautician. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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