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Recent Examples of plushness
Canada Goose Mystique Puffer Coat The warm, puffy coat of your dreams, this Canada Goose find is filled with 750 power down and 10 percent feather down for cloud-like plushness.
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Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
This GelFlex pillow landed on our softest pillows roundup for its plushness.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2025
In this case, that will be for eight hours every day — as spreadsheets are suddenly made more palatable thanks to its underhand plushness.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
This GelFlex pillow landed on our softest pillows roundup for its plushness.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2025
In this case, that will be for eight hours every day — as spreadsheets are suddenly made more palatable thanks to its underhand plushness.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plushness
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Already well-established as one of the most luxurious rides in the world, the addition has pushed the train to new levels of opulence.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
26 Dec. 2025
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As the twentieth century progresses, Steele moves from Christian Dior’s New Look—which brought back feminine opulence in the postwar period, with decadent skirts and cinched waists—to the rise of punk as a style that emphasized abjection, discomfort, and aggression.—
Leslie Jamison,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Boost Flavor in a Flash Tomato paste adds instant richness without thinning the dish.—
Anne Wolf,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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In a region defined by its sensory richness, including the smell of oak barrels, the colors of changing leaves, the taste of a perfectly aged Cabernet, the homes that harmonize with the surroundings become part of the landscape that surrounds them.—
Amplified Content Studio,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Beading, feathers, and pony-hair textures bring sumptuousness to ballet flats, clutches, and ladylike handbags, while plush textures give cloud-like softness to pumps and and tote bags.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Then again, a sense of glamour and lavishness—two pillars of Old Hollywood, when the big film studios had big money to burn—still goes hand-in-hand with awards season dressing today, too.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Large-format square stone tiles add a touch of classical grandeur to a room.—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2026
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The analysis underscores that while Americans may be attracted to the grandeur of larger cities, midsized metro areas have much to offer on the job front, while also offering a lower cost of living.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Blocking mergers to protect luxury handbag markets or attacking low-margin grocers for price gouging were misplaced efforts.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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While Lawrence’s everyday street style may lean more on the quiet luxury end, the red carpet is an entirely different matter.—
Irene Kim,
Vogue,
12 Jan. 2026
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But even setting aside the continued sartorial magnificence of Alan Cumming and his stylish sidekick, The Traitors’s entertainment value as a social experiment keeps on rising.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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The magnificence of mesquite is on full display.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2023
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The comic luxuriance of Roman references should not blind us to the significance of these constant appeals to the Roman Republic and to classical virtue.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2022
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“Plushness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plushness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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