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Recent Examples of touch up
At one point, one of the girls is seen touching up the Houston rapper’s fresh tiger ink on his stomach.
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Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025
Out on the balcony a painter was at work touching up the facade, a small hedge against the decay.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2025
Severino, who made a return to the Yankee Stadium mound over the weekend, was touched up by his former New York Yankees squad.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Your word processor can edit documents, and your image editor can touch up pictures, but a ransomware program that tries to encrypt those files gets blocked.
—Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 June 2025
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Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025
Out on the balcony a painter was at work touching up the facade, a small hedge against the decay.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2025
Severino, who made a return to the Yankee Stadium mound over the weekend, was touched up by his former New York Yankees squad.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Your word processor can edit documents, and your image editor can touch up pictures, but a ransomware program that tries to encrypt those files gets blocked.
—Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch up
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Gun speeds fracture repair but needs faster degradation With the bone-healing pellets perfected, Lee’s team moved to animal trials, testing the device on rabbits with broken femurs.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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Chain operators dominate stalls once run by families, and many dishes are perfected for efficiency rather than charm or character.—
Clarissa Wei,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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The old reservoir flicked at the edge of my consciousness—like hearing your parents fighting but not grasping the stakes.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Chris Durkin played a long arcing ball-in from well outside the area to the back post and João Klauss flicked a header to McSorley for the finish.—
Mercury News staff,
Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2025
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The textured outsole provides extra grip and protection from scuffs, which helps keep these shoes looking clean and polished even after multiple wears.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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Prettygarden Two-Piece Set Sometimes less is more, and such is the case with this simple, yet polished two-piece set from Prettygarden.—
Melony Forcier,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Sep. 2025
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Captain Marc Guehi, who was denied a move to Liverpool in a dramatic summer transfer deadline day U-turn, offers leadership and an exemplary ability to read the game.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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Later, reading researcher Saiful Islam’s book on the fabric’s legacy deepened her commitment.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Sep. 2025
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Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.—
Barbara A. Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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In contrast, companies that revise compensation to prioritize transformation objectives, empower executives to deliver better results and build more resilient companies.—
Daniel Schmeltz,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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To make matters worse, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down job growth from April 2024 to March 2025 by 911,000 jobs, the largest downward revision on record.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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Both of them, Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez, clubbed critical homers during a weekend that invited wonder about whether this is a changing of the guard instead of an impressive season.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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When Weissert followed by walking pinch-hitter Carlos Cortes, and third baseman Brett Harris clubbed a go-ahead RBI single, Cora rushed out to stem the bleeding; with virtually zero offensive production from his lineup, waiting for Weissert was a luxury the Red Sox could not afford.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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Josephine Rozzelle edited this edition.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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While introducing the feature on the Pixel 10 last month, Google noted that each image edited using AI on Google Photos will carry an invisible watermark.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Touch up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touch%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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