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as in varnishing
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The new post from Ballerini also featured a snap of her and friends painting their pumpkins at night and saying hello to a horse and ended with a silly clip of the singer emerging from the mouth of a blue hippo see-saw on a playground.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
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Most repairs and cosmetic updates don't require a permit, like painting walls, shingling your roof, replacing a faucet, or installing new bathroom tile.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
27 Oct. 2025
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As America attempts to reclaim its pride by whitewashing its unflattering histories, Springsteen’s struggle to balance light and dark on these pointedly American recordings is tremendously poignant.—
Will Hermes,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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Film workers for Palestine target those complicit, film companies and institutions, that are whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
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But by embroidering the drama of an American navigating Paris Fashion Week with stories of other women caught in the whirl, Winocour dilutes them all.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Someone’s braiding a piece of Shannon’s hair when a barrette falls out and onto the floor beneath the table.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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And as founders of Freedom Braiders, my daughter and I lead programs that teach the art of hair braiding and offer cognitive behavior classes in jails.—
Joanna Hernandez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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For care, the brand recommends a gentle machine cycle or hand-washing the dress to clean it, then hanging it to air-dry.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Gilding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gilding. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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