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Recent Examples of plumped
After a treatment, you are guided into a cavernous grey stone and wood relaxation room with six oversized day beds, plumped with heavy pillows and wool blankets.
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Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumped
Verb
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In the dressing room, after applying lipstick and rouge, Kaliardos plopped a wig of long, stringy brown hair on Costanzo’s head.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Two young women stood in front, plopped two tokens into a metal belt, pressed a lever, and watched as a credit-card-sized piece of cardboard slid out.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This concern has been tossed around (and tossed aside) for years.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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The swells rocked the boat violently, sent wave after wave over the stern, threw us sideways, and nearly tossed all of us into the ocean again and again.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Plumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumped. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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