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Recent Examples of touch up
Seated casually in the front seat of her car, the 29-year-old social media influencer touched up her makeup and chatted about her favorite beauty products.
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Here’s a rundown of the best solid fragrances to touch up your scent on the go without bringing a bottle along.
—Dan Michel, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
Read on for more about the color trend, drugstore products to buy, and expert tips on touching up your hair for the low.
—Essence, 22 July 2025
At one point, one of the girls is seen touching up the Houston rapper’s fresh tiger ink on his stomach.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025
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Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Here’s a rundown of the best solid fragrances to touch up your scent on the go without bringing a bottle along.
—Dan Michel, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
Read on for more about the color trend, drugstore products to buy, and expert tips on touching up your hair for the low.
—Essence, 22 July 2025
At one point, one of the girls is seen touching up the Houston rapper’s fresh tiger ink on his stomach.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch up
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Any business that sells primarily one thing has to perfect their formula, and the Key lime pie here has a balanced sweet-tart flavor, a buttery crust, and texture that’s not too firm or too soft.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Tyler Reddick, who needs a close to perfect day to advance past this cutoff race, has the fourth-highest odds with +1300.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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For the Taliban, the episode possibly carries the lesson that attempting to turn back time on a population that’s grown up with the internet is much harder than just flicking a switch.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Replays suggested that Woltemade had flicked the ball in.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Venus ends its Virgo run in your communication house, polishing your words with discernment.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
5 Oct. 2025
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Or a set of silverware to polish when stainless steel works fine?—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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The brand said in April 2021 that encrypted password information was also included within the leak, but the encryption keys to read those passwords weren’t accessed.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
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Banned Books Week is a movement that celebrates the freedom to read, while drawing attention to censorship of literature in libraries, schools and bookstores.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 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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While a university panel ultimately concluded there was no ongoing problem in the department, the incident gained national prominence and prompted Columbia to revise its process for reviewing complaints against faculty.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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The company had initially aimed to install 2,000 new stations this year, but later revised that to 1,800–2,000.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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After the clubbing scandal, the Finnish media, which had already dubbed her Party Sanna, began ramping up its coverage of Marin’s off-the-clock activities.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Slowly, Tom and Robbie unwind the plot points we’ve already been clubbed over the head with.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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This conversation has been edited and condensed for publication.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Josephine Rozzelle edited this edition.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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