shininess

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Recent Examples of shininess It is also used as a food glaze to provide shininess, particularly in candies, fruit, gum and coffee beans. Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 Folks are drawn to the shininess and the shows. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026 In the same way, the Mac's version of Liquid Glass looks slightly toned down compared to the same styling in iOS and iPadOS, with a lot less shininess and translucency (not none, but less). ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shininess
Noun
  • And through all this, Saariaho’s elaborately beautiful orchestration scintillates, jabs, caresses, and swerves, giving all that vivid misery a sheen of lyric glamour.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This holographic look has an opalescent sheen that's simply stunning.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The high-gloss finish of each nail also deserves some commotion.
    Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Fuentes offers a more concise gloss.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Choose from a big assortment of polish, gift sets, treatments and polish for kids.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The concerns are strength, polish, and whether his current body can consistently hold up against NFL power and speed.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Regardless, string lights like these instantly create warmth, ambiance, and luminescence.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The phone powers the light source while the camera captures the strip’s luminescence in real time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For one day only, a classic roadside pitstop will be transformed into a desert beauty destination, inviting guests to cruise through the brand's universe of color, glow and artistry through a series of interactive touch points.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • When our own planet was eclipsing the sun, at least from the Artemis capsule’s point of view, the astronauts saw the agave-green milky glow of the solar atmosphere and its dust, visible around the moon.
    Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Scripps Research team used minimal fluorescence photon flux super-resolution microscopy to explore the difference between the two proteins.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the work analyzed the state of Ni catalysts using scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy, together with in situ high energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026

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“Shininess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shininess. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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