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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smartening
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Sabrina Carpenter posted a photo on Instagram of her makeup and featured the Make Beauty Skin Mimetic Concealer, a brightening concealer used by Courteney Cox and Hailey Bieber.
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If your grout isn't horrendous with dirt or stains, this might be a great cleaner for brightening the lines.
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Lemon can be used for everything from freshening bed linens to removing stains from clothes–including cleaning your microwave.
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Neither does freshening with sprays or perfumed products like dryer sheets.
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As someone who enjoys gardening and beautifying my yard, one thing that always dampens my mood is the sight of weeds.
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Each version of the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop has the new Qualcomm Hexagon NPU on board, offering up to 80 TOPS of local AI performance for beautifying webcams, cleaning up audio, or performing local text and image generation.
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The timing of this stellar event is especially striking given that this aurora forecast also happens to coincide with the rising of the full Strawberry Moon, adorning the night sky Monday evening.
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Fans have also indulged in a more modern Scottish tradition, adorning statues in both cities with traffic cones.
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While the 23-year-old was working in the trench, the trench collapsed, trapping him for a short while.
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Ventless hoods don't have ductwork and include a charcoal filter for trapping smoke and odors so that air can be recirculated.
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The decision also reflected a larger change in the way Taylor thought about decorating.
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Among DeJohn’s hobbies were flower arranging, collecting anything blue and white, gardening, and decorating.
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“Smartening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smartening. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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