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Recent Examples of window dressing
Real estate off-track isn’t frothy if indistinct window dressing — no Donk.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
But efforts must be real and substantive, not just window dressing.
—Matthew Phillips, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Some skeptics suggested that corporate statements about racial justice were just window dressing.
—Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
It has long been said that India runs cricket with an iron fist and that figureheads such as Barclay are merely window dressing.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
But efforts must be real and substantive, not just window dressing.
—Matthew Phillips, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Some skeptics suggested that corporate statements about racial justice were just window dressing.
—Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
It has long been said that India runs cricket with an iron fist and that figureheads such as Barclay are merely window dressing.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for window dressing
facade
Noun
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For the past two years, a prototype facade has been in use on a greenhouse in the University of Freiburg's Botanical Garden, in the state of Baden-Württemberg.—
Ben Coxworth
May 23,
New Atlas,
23 May 2025
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When a simple mistake turns into a fatal error for one of his patients, Sam tries to bury the truth under a facade of perfection, knowing that a lifetime of deceit is about to be exposed.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
22 May 2025
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“Window dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/window%20dressing. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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