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spruced

verb

past tense of spruce

as in tricked

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The woman did so willingly, and there is no allegation that she was forced or tricked.

— Jim Defede, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
But now, the technology has caught up and people are tricked.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of tricked

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As broadcasting capabilities improved, the key didn’t have to get quite so cozy with the ignition system to effectively communicate.

— Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 29 Oct. 2026
After the 2016 sales tax hike, the proceeds of which went largely toward pensions, the retirement funding steadily improved.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

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Galland embellished his ghouls with new characteristics not found in the original Arabic, chiefly the macabre practice of digging up graves to feast on human flesh.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
George Lutz rejected the suggestion that the entire experience was fabricated and continued to maintain that his family had encountered unexplained phenomena in the house, although some details of the story were embellished over time.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of embellished

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The Modern Master Award was established in 1995 to celebrate an individual who enriched culture through their work in film.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
This has enriched its atmosphere with calcium, lithium, and sodium, and the team's model suggests this would have led WD J1330+6435 to adopt a green hue.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of enriched

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The general sense was that pulling Dragon and Falcon 9 off the market would cause temporary upheaval, but these problems would soon be ameliorated by Starship and its promise of lower cost and even greater capability.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 Oct. 2026
Some of them will be only ameliorated or policed; others might be unsolvable in principle.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

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