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Noun
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Spotify's take on the family plan includes several handy features, such as Family Mix (a vulgarity-free playlist) and Spotify Kids (a separate service designed for children).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025 -
The new addition looks like a triumph of vulgarity.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Warm lighting enhances natural materials, brings out the richness of colors, and helps rooms feel more comfortable from dawn to dusk.—
Natasha Bazika,
Martha Stewart,
14 June 2026
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Its richness is reflected in Boston’s minority- and immigrant-owned culinary institutions across its diverse neighborhoods.—
Michele Herrmann,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Noun
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There is a distinction worth drawing between luxury and beauty, or more precisely between opulence and grace.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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The monarchy tends to treat royal residences as working assets, sometimes even leased to staff, rather than as displays of opulence.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
Noun
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To actualize it, Arrighetti must maintain just a modicum of this magnificence.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Championing not just human magnificence but human imperfection is a radical turn.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Private booths get their own treatments, too, and the bar is done up with even more ornamentation to make spirits bright.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
2 Dec. 2025
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Comparable in size to the Arc de Triomphe, the Porte Monumentale also contained surface ornamentation based on Haeckel’s exacting lifelong documentation of organisms to be found in the world’s oceans.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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While stealing millions of dollars and funneling it through shell companies, Iza spent freely on luxury cars and other extravagances, including cosmetic surgery to lengthen his legs, prosecutors said.—
Dave Collins,
Fortune,
3 June 2026
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Ambassadors Clubhouse, with its extravagance and its storytelling, seems to be where the ambition lives.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Noun
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Inside England’s media center The media center has some cool decorations.—
Pete Grathoff
June 14,
Kansas City Star,
15 June 2026
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Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform and for decoration in general.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Each of the Maisons is represented via artifacts that tell their unique stories of sumptuousness and cultural dialogue that helped shape diplomacy, identity, and popular culture.—
Nancy Olson,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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In the sumptuousness of the bibliophile’s parlor, studying Black history occasioned reverent, joyous gatherings.—
Laura E. Helton,
Literary Hub,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Meretriciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meretriciousness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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