as in preparing
to make ready in advance
the hotel's penthouse suite is being groomed for a royal visit
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Recent Examples of grooming
Inflation and new tariffs are pushing prices up further in 2025, with veterinary fees increasing by 11 percent, pet cleaning supplies by 183 percent, grooming supplies by 20 percent, and treats and chews by 85 percent.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The Ryman concert was rebroadcast as an Apple Music livestream hosted by veteran hip-hop tastemaker Ebro Darden, while the afterparty held at Hillsboro Village’s Anzie Blue was backed by men’s grooming brand Duke Cannon.
—Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Whereas the fashions of grooming locate us in time, hair simply grows as part of our species biology.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
To celebrate the reopening of the MoMA Store in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art is hosting a pop-up with one of France’s most popular men’s grooming brands, Horace.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
Repression, self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, jealousy, emotional abuse, and even allusions to grooming, among other terrors of the fog, keep the tensions high from start to finish.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Maxwell, a former British socialite who had been accused of procuring and grooming underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, fascinated Kraus.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The star’s grooming routine is no fuss.
—Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Replit is pioneering multiplayer AI development, and Task-Master-AI automates entire dev workflows—from backlog grooming to pull requests.
—Paul Kovalenko, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The Ryman concert was rebroadcast as an Apple Music livestream hosted by veteran hip-hop tastemaker Ebro Darden, while the afterparty held at Hillsboro Village’s Anzie Blue was backed by men’s grooming brand Duke Cannon.
—Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Whereas the fashions of grooming locate us in time, hair simply grows as part of our species biology.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
To celebrate the reopening of the MoMA Store in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art is hosting a pop-up with one of France’s most popular men’s grooming brands, Horace.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
Repression, self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, jealousy, emotional abuse, and even allusions to grooming, among other terrors of the fog, keep the tensions high from start to finish.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Maxwell, a former British socialite who had been accused of procuring and grooming underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, fascinated Kraus.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The star’s grooming routine is no fuss.
—Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Replit is pioneering multiplayer AI development, and Task-Master-AI automates entire dev workflows—from backlog grooming to pull requests.
—Paul Kovalenko, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grooming
preparing
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The Broncos were without timeouts, so Nix was preparing to get in position to clock the ball and give Wil Lutz a field-goal attempt.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Virginia’s large population of federal workers is preparing for major disruption.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Grooming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grooming. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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