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Recent Examples of toning
Guests and a small community of local members enter a subterranean sanctuary of saunas, steam rooms, rain showers, a hydrotherapy pool, and serene treatment suites offering everything from exosome facials and pelvic-floor toning therapy to detox IV drips.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
The look focuses on maintaining hair integrity with intentional lift and seamless toning for a healthy, glossy finish.
—Amanda Le, InStyle, 24 May 2026
These tools deliver low-level electrical currents designed to stimulate facial muscles and improve circulation, producing a mild lifting and toning effect.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Look for tinted products that give a wash of color and smooth out your hair for a salon-like toning result.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
A bit greasy This toning body cream helps target cellulite on the legs by eliminating bumps and uneven texture.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2026
The pigment payoff is intentionally subtle, so think of it as a polish rather than a true toning treatment.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2026
There are now so many different lasers that can achieve amazing results for a variety of different concerns, including the texture and toning of skin, volume loss for people taking GLP-1 medications and hair loss with perimenopause.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
As Bianchini notes, a toned vagus nerve is a healthy vagus nerve—and, just like our muscles, toning comes from strengthening exercises.
—Jessie Quinn, Flow Space, 27 Jan. 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026
The look focuses on maintaining hair integrity with intentional lift and seamless toning for a healthy, glossy finish.
—Amanda Le, InStyle, 24 May 2026
These tools deliver low-level electrical currents designed to stimulate facial muscles and improve circulation, producing a mild lifting and toning effect.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Look for tinted products that give a wash of color and smooth out your hair for a salon-like toning result.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
A bit greasy This toning body cream helps target cellulite on the legs by eliminating bumps and uneven texture.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2026
The pigment payoff is intentionally subtle, so think of it as a polish rather than a true toning treatment.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2026
There are now so many different lasers that can achieve amazing results for a variety of different concerns, including the texture and toning of skin, volume loss for people taking GLP-1 medications and hair loss with perimenopause.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
As Bianchini notes, a toned vagus nerve is a healthy vagus nerve—and, just like our muscles, toning comes from strengthening exercises.
—Jessie Quinn, Flow Space, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toning
Noun
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Usha Vance isn’t used to showing off her holiday trimmings.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
9 Dec. 2025
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The traditional food — usually made with pork liver, pork trimmings, cornmeal and seasonings — is getting harder to find altogether.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Atlanta opens its mandatory minicamp Tuesday, and though Pearce did not attend any of the team’s voluntary OTA workouts, he is expected to be in attendance and participate this week.—
Josh Kendall,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Most of those workouts were announced ahead of time and most of those prospects were made available to the media, but one player came in under the radar.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026
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“Toning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toning. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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