sheen
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Apart from non-native speakers, there may be other subgroups of writers whose prose has the focus-grouped sheen of ChatGPT output.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
It has a gloss to it, a kind of quiet sheen that standard mayo simply does not.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
It comes across like a lower-fi version of such early punk groups as Suicide and Television with a digital sheen that suggests ’80s Tangerine Dream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
My body felt heavy, and though someone had pulled off my sweater, my shirt was plastered to my skin with a thin sheen of sweat.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Vocabulary lists containing sheen
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