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as in smoothness
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as in suaveness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unctuousness
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Some include increased smoothness, tightness, and hydration, plus reduced wrinkles, inflammation, sagging, and age spots.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026 -
The Pistons are gritty, but the salient quality of Cunningham’s game is its smoothness.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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Below, shop our nine favorite formulas that a suit a range of concerns, from oiliness and hair loss, to dryness and dandruff.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2026
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Medium-full, with impressive concentration and excellent ripeness; there is a slight oiliness on the palate, along with very good acidity and significant persistence.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion.—
Fahad Zuberi,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Hancock County: Pennsy Trail The Greenfield section of the Pennsy Trail features art installations, a playground and a bike share program to give visitors a foliage experience that melds urbanity with nature.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
23 Sep. 2025
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Where dahlias and zinnias offer structure and bold blooms, cosmos add airy elegance to any garden or cut flower arrangement.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
5 Mar. 2026
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Its high-neck design and ribbed hem and cuffs combine classic Irish texture and elegance that also keeps you toasty while walking from pub to pub.—
Gretta Monahan,
Boston Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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No matter the role, that toughness was always there, a desire to push against the artificiality of acting to get at something true and lived-in within his characters.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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Like their future disciples in PC Music, Scritti Politti were giddy pop fans who approached the form as self-conscious outsiders, foregrounding its artificiality, pushing its bright colors to new extremes, aiming to make great pop records that also asked probing questions about what pop even is.—
Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
15 Feb. 2026
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Judith Martin's Miss Manners column has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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The manners by which stories of heroes were conveyed in antiquity were not so unlike the comic books, movies and TV shows, games, and high-profile PR events of the Marvel Universe.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
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Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.—
Tina Nguyen,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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Premiering in 2004, Project Runway was instrumental in ushering in a new style of reality competition based on skill rather than duplicity and cynicism.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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How To Get Rid Of Flies The best way to keep flies away outdoors is to get rid of their food and breeding sources.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2026
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Threats to the species include the loss and degradation of breeding, migratory and overwintering habitat, exposure to insecticides and the effects of climate change.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Unctuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unctuousness. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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