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Recent Examples of touch up
Out on the balcony a painter was at work touching up the facade, a small hedge against the decay.
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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
Tap Secret Mattifying Dry Shampoo Powder in your purse, travel cosmetic bag, or work tote to touch up greasy or flat hair on the go.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 18 June 2025
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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
Tap Secret Mattifying Dry Shampoo Powder in your purse, travel cosmetic bag, or work tote to touch up greasy or flat hair on the go.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch up
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Some furniture polishes may be helpful to use as a double-acting cleaner and polisher that removes grime and perfects the finish of your cabinets to give them a like-new feel after cleaning.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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While creatives have historically devised and illustrated their ideas, using tech tools like Photoshop to fine-tune them, the script appears to have flipped — with AI starting the process and humans perfecting the final product.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Osaka said her fighting victory over Liudmila Samsonova in Montreal flicked a switch that lit the spark.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Given their stature, facilities and squad, this team is a rough diamond waiting to be polished.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Plenty of brands already offer or are transitioning to TPO-free formulas that contain different photoinitiators (a chemical that makes gel polishes cure under a lamp instead of air-drying like regular polish) such as TPO-L, BAPO, or other resin initiators.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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The court received a total of 28 victim impact statements, of which seven were read publicly at last month's hearings.—
Alasdair Pal,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Keep reading for all the sexiest styles from the 2025 VMAs.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
8 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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Moreover, the June count was revised lower to a loss of 13,000, the first monthly decline since December 2020.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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The jobs report from July shattered the narrative that the economy of 2025 was strong, revising previous figures downward and revealing something close to an 80% collapse in hiring, even as inflation crept upwards and layoffs rolled.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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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
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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,
3 Sep. 2025
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The rapper eventually admitted to editing the photo.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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