- present participle of dress.
dressing
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Finish with the homemade dressing and more parm.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mawhinney said that when he entered the judges' dressing rooms he didn't know what he would have ended up with.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Long-term services and support include medical and personal-care services like medication management and help with bathing, dressing, eating, walking and toileting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I already cried all the tears I had in the dressing room,” he said in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It’s like an actor remaining in character and refusing to leave his dressing room, or a writer refusing to leave his garret after finishing a book.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
That selection of veggies paired with multiple mini cups of colorful dressings?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Most homemade creamy dressings have the same problem: they’re flat.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Clorox brands include eponymous cleaners and run the gamut of consumer products, including Fresh Step cat litter, Kingsford charcoal and Hidden Valley Ranch dressings.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
Adams and the other nurses had to remove their dressings and put fresh antibiotic ointment over the burned area every twenty-four hours.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
