as in restores
to bring back to a former condition or vigor
cool glasses of lemonade freshened us after a day of hard work outside
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Recent Examples of freshens
This light color freshens a space with an easy-going breezy quality.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
26 May 2026
Grinding ice cubes with coarse salt helps break up buildup, while a handful of citrus peels freshens the scent.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Nothing freshens a room up quite like sparkling baseboards and walls.
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Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
7 Apr. 2026
Tips for Repotting African Violets Repotting African violets freshens their soil, prevents leggy stems, and encourages flowering.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Feb. 2026
Each diffuser implements innovative dry air technology that freshens approximately 800 square feet, and each cartridge lasts approximately 300 hours.
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Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
And the fact that Melissa Broder, of Milk-Fed, freshens this edition in a new forward.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
26 May 2026
Grinding ice cubes with coarse salt helps break up buildup, while a handful of citrus peels freshens the scent.
—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Nothing freshens a room up quite like sparkling baseboards and walls.
—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
7 Apr. 2026
Tips for Repotting African Violets Repotting African violets freshens their soil, prevents leggy stems, and encourages flowering.
—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Feb. 2026
Each diffuser implements innovative dry air technology that freshens approximately 800 square feet, and each cartridge lasts approximately 300 hours.
—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
And the fact that Melissa Broder, of Milk-Fed, freshens this edition in a new forward.
—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freshens
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What the collection restores is the density and texture that caricature could strip away.
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Moving through your available range of motion repeatedly — rather than holding a stretch — restores that blood flow and primes your joints for the activation exercises that follow.
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The high vamp perfectly refreshes the nostalgic trend, and the color selection is so fresh and fun.
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Your 4th House of Home and Family refreshes as the New Moon encourages gentle improvements that protect comfort and support your sensitive system.
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The measure revives a 2022 phaseout that was thrown out by a judge.
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There will not be a quick turnaround that revives sustainability reporting.
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Both are drawn from Spanish auteurist designer Jaime Hayon’s arresting sense of design – a protagonist with a beak nose, shiny colors, an avoidance of sharp angles – which recreates over a century of Spanish design and architecture.
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So while the race to produce generative video models of higher fidelity will continue, the real arms race that will matter next is which of these tools that leverage all available models is easiest to use and best recreates the feelings of actually making movies.
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Trump added that oil exports from Iran could once again be bottlenecked at the Strait of Hormuz if the United States renews military strikes on Iran.
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If a traveler renews that passport, replaces it, or travels on a different one, the authorization may no longer match the document being checked.
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Brooke touches upon the topic with her partner on the show, HGTV's Scott McGillivray, while the pair renovates different spaces in a Las Vegas home as part of the competition.
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Nazuna For a smaller-scale option, check out Nazuna, which renovates traditional homes and runs them as small ryokan (traditional inns) or private villas.
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“Freshens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freshens. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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