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as in polishing
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as in flicking
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touching up
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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 -
Over the course of the next 36 years, McNally returned to the script again and again, rewriting, restaging, refining and polishing it into something that eventually became one of Broadway’s biggest hits of 2014 and ’15.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
29 Sep. 2025
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Any dairy farmer can tell you that biting flies are a pestilent scourge for cattle herds, which is why one so often sees cows throwing their heads, stamping their feet, flicking their tails, and twitching their skin—desperately trying to shake off the nasty creatures.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 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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And behind-the-scenes videos show how the mastermind spent weeks perfecting the three-minute video that marries art history and Swift's song seamlessly.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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For four hours, a rotating squad of stylists and handlers has been perfecting every strand of hair, every stitch of clothing, every angle of her look for The Hollywood Reporter‘s cover shoot.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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Little River Canyon National Preserve introduces visitors to a magnificent gorge that was created by the Little River cutting across the top of Lookout Mountain.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The trial was designed to appeal to cash-conscious customers, who’ve been cutting eating out from their budgets, hurting restaurants’ profits.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Even now, when the harassment is digital—some guy in Texas sending me an explicit message after reading my essay—my instinct is still to minimize it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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Phyllis Diller sent her a piece of hair art after reading about the museum in People magazine.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
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That leaves places such as Apache County in limbo in a debate centered over keeping government fully operational at existing funding levels and revising health insurance coverage for poor and working-class Americans.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Europe’s ability to meet its multiyear commitments is far from clear, and Brussels continues to resist revising regulations that inhibit the operation of American high-tech companies on the continent.—
JENNIFER KAVANAGH,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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John Cooper described how much Redford enjoyed working over ideas with young filmmakers at the Sundance Institute each summer.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
20 Sep. 2025
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The three babyfaces took turns working over Rollins with a barrage of running attacks in the corner before agreeing to try to put Rollins through a table on the outside.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Kinso, designed as an AI brain for conversations, calendars, and contacts, sets itself apart from competitors still reworking outdated platforms for the age of AI.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Businesses have attempted to limit the cost of tariffs from being passed on by rerouting supply chains, reworking operations, instituting hiring pauses, or administering large-scale layoffs.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Touching up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touching%20up. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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