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Trappings like solar panels on the Vatican roof and an all-electric Popemobile aren’t just green window dressing.
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Mike Burbach, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2025
The social codes of bloodless brutality cloaked in plausible deniability aren’t window dressing.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Flagrant violations across diverse policy realms suggested that the order’s commitment to the rule of law was rhetorical window dressing.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
In that sense, the whole contrivance is mainly window dressing and not a feet-to-the-fire consideration.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
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Mike Burbach, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2025
The social codes of bloodless brutality cloaked in plausible deniability aren’t window dressing.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Flagrant violations across diverse policy realms suggested that the order’s commitment to the rule of law was rhetorical window dressing.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
In that sense, the whole contrivance is mainly window dressing and not a feet-to-the-fire consideration.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for window dressing
facade
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When Simone decides to grasp Kiki’s life for herself by starting an affair with Peter, though, Michaela’s beatific facade slips.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Today, its Portland stone façade and arched windows still speak to that Victorian grandeur, but inside the story has shifted.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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