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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
Verb
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Skechers has perfected the art of a comfortable sneaker.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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Starting at just 6 years old, Eid worked in the restaurant alongside his parents and siblings, learning how to perfect a kabob platter.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Without appearing to look, Rogers flicked the ball round the corner, straight into the path of Madueke running in behind, cutting inwards from the right.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Aniston’s new haircut incorporates more length and less volume, features a sleek root base, and focuses on the feathery, flicked ends of the original cut.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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What color would the statue be if it were polished as envisioned?—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Lopez stepped out looking both cozy and polished in an oversized tailored and tied cream jacket and a slinky matching floor-length skirt.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The first sentence has something like 31 words and takes a while to say, let alone read and digest.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Keep reading to get the full story on HRT and Alzheimer’s, and learn what this means for you.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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The order also directs CDPHE to collaborate with other state agencies and offices to identify and remove barriers to vaccination, ensure state health insurance plans and Medicaid cover COVID-19 vaccines and review and revise rules to ensure pharmacies can provide COVID-19 vaccines.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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The company has revised its September security update and all eligible phones will now receive the fix.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Padres smacked four home runs and clubbed them, 8-1, at Coors Field to clinch the three-game series.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
7 Sep. 2025
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Their 10-year-old daughter cheers three to four times a week and also does runners club twice a week, while their son plays soccer one to two times a week.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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This one-time purchase grants access to Skylum's full suite of photo-editing tools, available for both Windows and macOS, and is a smart investment for amateur photographers.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Touch up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touch%20up. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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