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Recent Examples of touch up
Footage then showed Meghan posing in various outfits, getting makeup touched up and checking out the images on a computer screen.
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 23 May 2025
Arresting murals nearby have been defaced and touched up repeatedly.
—Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Every Few Months Empty cabinets, clean inside, check for peeling edges, and touch up any minor damage.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Keeping knives touched up on that sharpener only takes a few seconds, and bringing a knife back from dull just requires a few minutes.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 23 May 2025
Arresting murals nearby have been defaced and touched up repeatedly.
—Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Every Few Months Empty cabinets, clean inside, check for peeling edges, and touch up any minor damage.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Keeping knives touched up on that sharpener only takes a few seconds, and bringing a knife back from dull just requires a few minutes.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch up
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Impairment of collateral can and does often happen through the neglect of the lender in failing to take necessary steps to protect the collateral, such as by failing to perfect its security rights thus allowing another creditor to obtain priority.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Norm Miller, University of San Diego YES: Eventually these will be perfected and become part of normal operations, just as self-driving cars are inevitable.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Your words were steady, steeped in the old stories, but my eyes flicked to the window, unafraid.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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Superman is more conventional than Gunn’s Guardians flicks, or even his DC outings The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, yet he’s carried over the unhinged, off-kilter fun of those films.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
9 July 2025
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Define swim lanes for each spokesperson, and then polish the narrative for each.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Most high school seniors applying to selective colleges this fall don’t need a lot of advice on how to polish their personal essay or list extracurriculars.—
Gerald Bradshaw,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Simpson remembers being astounded by the number of people who turned out for a Delicious Tacos reading in Los Angeles in 2022.—
John McDermott,
Rolling Stone,
6 July 2025
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Keep reading: Now, watch the cast of A Minecraft Movie react to TikTok trends: Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
6 July 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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Transcript text may be revised to correct errors or match updates to audio.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
14 July 2025
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First, funding for small nuclear reactors (SMR) will be revised.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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During a three-game series at Daikin Park, the Houston Astros right fielder clubbed two home runs, totaled four hits and drove in five runs.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2025
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Austin Wells homered later in the inning, and the Yankees ultimately won, 20-9, while clubbing a franchise-record nine home runs with a lineup full of torpedo bats.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2025
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This edition of Forbes Daily was edited by Sarah Whitmire.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.—
Time,
Time,
1 July 2025
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“Touch up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touch%20up. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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