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Recent Examples of touch up
Simply swipe on your lipstick at the start of the day, then perhaps touch up before jetting off to happy hour drinks after work.
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
Simone Biles, 28, was snapped touching up her makeup before her floor routine, using a five dollar NYX lip liner and Fenty Beauty setting powder.
—Brittany Talarico, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Ulta expects net sales for the year will be between $11.1 billion and $11.2 billion, a touch up from $11 billion to $11.2 billion.
—Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
In one snap, hairstylist Barry Lee Moe can be seen touching up the Unstoppable actress' sleek twisted updo.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
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Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
Simone Biles, 28, was snapped touching up her makeup before her floor routine, using a five dollar NYX lip liner and Fenty Beauty setting powder.
—Brittany Talarico, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Ulta expects net sales for the year will be between $11.1 billion and $11.2 billion, a touch up from $11 billion to $11.2 billion.
—Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
In one snap, hairstylist Barry Lee Moe can be seen touching up the Unstoppable actress' sleek twisted updo.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch up
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Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 June 2025
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Emilia Perez and The Brutalist both used AI to alter voices, and Adrian Brody won the Academy Award for best actor even though AI perfected his Hungarian accent.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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The sky burns orange, the neon-red open sign flicks off, and the Dream Bean goes dark.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
30 June 2025
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Screenshots from a June 16 TikTok video of a black cat attempting to wake up owner by flicking on the lights.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Other procedures like polishing restorations, ceramic crowns, using elastics, orthodontic appliances, and so on can generate particles.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Most people think stand-up comics spend decades polishing their act to get good at telling jokes.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
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November 18 will also see Simon & Schuster release an unabridged audiobook of 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One, read by Sean Penn.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
25 June 2025
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Joshua Jackson and Busy Philipps coordinate their pinks and have a Dawson's Creek reunion at the MPTF NextGen Annual Summer Party fundraiser on June 22 in L.A. Walton Goggins reads a short story to announce Jimmy John's Summer Menu of Ultimate Temptation (S.M.U.T.) in New York City on June 23.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
24 June 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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At the rear the quad-lamp taillights remain, but the exhaust outlets and lower bumper are revised and have a more cohesive and upscale appearance.—
Karl Brauer,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The athlete can then either revise the deal and resubmit, cancel the agreement or appeal to a neutral arbitration.—
Matt Murschel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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Devers clubbed a two-run homer on Saturday against the Boston Red Sox to give the San Francisco Giants a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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Hunters killed the birds for meat, shooting or even clubbing the docile birds to death.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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Fortune helped edit the autobiography of leading Black intellectual Booker T. Washington, and his civil rights organization, National Afro-American League, is considered an important predecessor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
23 June 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
22 June 2025
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