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beautify

[byoo-tuh-fahy] / ˈbju təˌfaɪ /


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In a lengthy second post, Trump bragged about steps he has taken to beautify Washington, including resurfacing the bottom of the Reflecting Pool with an "American flag blue" coating used in swimming pools.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

There are a lot of other things happening on the mall and around Washington to beautify the capital before July 4.

From Slate Jun. 4, 2026

The civic authority has announced a "street wall painting competition" for Sunday, inviting artists to come help beautify the city.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2026

White House spokesman Davis Ingle said, “President Trump has full legal authority to modernize, renovate, and beautify the White House—just like all of his predecessors did.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

They're as different from one another as pearls and rubies and emeralds, showing how uniquely we can use our arcana to beautify.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Urban bushland is a haven for wildlife, beautifies suburbs and has marked mental health benefits.

From BBC May 11, 2024

“Content moderation beautifies the surface of the internet.”

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2023

One is Frank Gehry’s radical $23 million conversion of an old bank building into a state-of-the-art concert and education center that beautifies the street around the corner from Inglewood High School.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2022

South Korea's foreign ministry expressed in a statement "deep regret and concern for the visit to Yasukuni Shrine, which beautifies the colonial invasion and war of aggression".

From Reuters Dec. 7, 2021

Wild, luxuriant grass covered the bed of the place, and the bank on either side was clothed in that verdure which so beautifies the woods in summer.

From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh

Consider the mockery Shakespeare received from Robert Greene, a fellow playwright, who called him “an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

Workers like Jacobs beautified the city, days before politicians, executives and journalists from around the world descend on San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

She asked therefore for admission to his presence, and on obtaining permission adorned and beautified herself so as to appear before him in the most majestic and at the same time pity-inspiring guise.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

It was really refreshing to have a visual moment: not just the pictures but everything behind the pictures, of sitting in the chair and getting beautified — and the crew looked like us!

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2022

But Aureliano spent the money on muriatic add to prepare some aqua regia and he beautified the keys by plating them with gold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bogdan's coalition says it hopes in the meantime to cover the official banners about beautifying the city with "artworks reflecting the diversity of the park's community."

From Barron's May 19, 2026

Kutcher's character in the science-fiction series is a tech billionaire responsible for bringing a beautifying injection into the world, which he has taken himself in an effort to look much younger.

From BBC Jan. 21, 2026

Countless acts of love had gone into maintaining and beautifying the lodge.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

“At a time when our friends, parents and acquaintances are dying at the front, we have more pressing matters than rebuilding roads and beautifying parks,” Kateryna Zaderey, one of the protesters, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times Dec. 14, 2023

The boys outdid one another in beautifying the Palace Flophouse until after a few months it was, if anything, overfurnished.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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