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glossy

[glos-ee, glaw-see] / ˈglɒs i, ˈglɔ si /


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A glossy video was shown during the event, with people speaking to and naming animated versions of their "dots," then giving them various tasks, like building a website and booking afterschool activities for their children.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

And they give its contours just the right glossy sheen a hovering vehicle demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

His eyes avoided hers, focused on her glossy wig.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They fit as naturally in cheap pulp magazines as in upmarket literary glossies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Carter’s detailed account of the overhead and rigorous scheduling that go into running a magazine is eye-opening, and makes it pretty easy to see why so many glossies didn’t survive the digital transition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025

Long-faded glossies with names like Holiday, Venture and Horizon sent her to faraway lands and paid her handsomely, though she talked about money as “a constant worry.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

None of the other 14 contestants, though, can flex that they were a sous chef at Noma, which is often cited by many glossies and awards as the world’s best restaurant.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

All the glossies I’d pored over in my bedroom at home, admiring the gymnasts who’d reached the top of the sport.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

What had been brothy turned to something thicker, glossier — golden, almost velvety.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

The budget for microdramas is usually between $100,000 and $250,000 for an entire season, compared with millions of dollars for glossier full-length shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

But in “The Waterfront,” Williamson’s main characters are a multigenerational cast of adults whose lives are glossier and grittier than what audiences remember from the “Dawson’s” gang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Although Doherty and the characters she played usually seemed to inhabit a glossier, more beautiful world, she was always someone viewers could relate to on screen, and was a self-proclaimed "badass" in real life.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

I think I could give him a few tips from my own professional experience: his peach halves could be glossier, for instance.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

And today, F1 isn’t merely one of Apple’s glossiest global partners with a blockbuster movie to show for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

For those still determined to aim for the furthest, glossiest reaches of the Benjamin Moore color wheel, there are some caveats.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

The U.K. pop rockers return to Sodo at their glossiest, riding high on this year’s ballyhooed “Being Funny in a Foreign Language.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Fashion likes to control its messaging, to frame its image and images in the glossiest, most perfect way possible.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2020

And—acting as Extra Equerry—I'd got instructions to call her a hack conveyance, and—being young and downy, I'd picked H.R.H. the glossiest growler on the rank.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan




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