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A tiny stamp, “52,” painted beneath layers of varnish on the painting’s top left corner, didn’t match any known art inventories, either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The researchers envision the treatment being available in two forms: a daily-use toothpaste or a professional gel applied by dentists, similar to nail varnish.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025

The report found issues that compromised infection control as staff members of all groups were not wearing a mask properly, did not have bare arms below the elbow and were wearing jewellery or nail varnish.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

“I did my best to strip the varnish away,” Sheff writes.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

Now, working on it in the so- called den in the basement, he applied a last coat of varnish.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Existing treatments like fluoride varnishes and remineralization products can help relieve symptoms but do not actually rebuild enamel.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2025

Göransson has scored every Coogler picture since his 2009 student film “Locks,” and he never merely varnishes them with music in postproduction — he is truly Coogler’s co-author.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

MTV’s picture of the art world varnishes the sheer desperation and insecurity found at almost every level of the game.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Note that even old, clear varnishes sometimes had lead.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Akaroid Resin, a resin obtained from some of the grass-trees of Australia, used in varnishes.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

She rushed off to have her nails varnished at her favorite salon, which was destroyed in the mall strike but has reopened in a building nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

His family, who had arrived from the Philippines in droves to celebrate his 50th birthday, beamed from the first several rows of glossy, varnished pews.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

A quick way to see whether something is laminated or varnished is to tear it, she explained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

The radio is of dark varnished wood with a single green eye that moves along the dial as you turn the knob.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Ironically, the 1974 varnishing and warm wax relining had helped keep the surface paint in place when the violent ripping happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

Shipwrights and volunteers will be recorking about 4,000 linear feet of seams on deck, conducting mechanical systems maintenance, painting and varnishing.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

This past Wednesday afternoon, owner Theresa Blankenship was busy varnishing the top of an old wooden cabinet-looking item that came with the inn.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 18, 2016

The “patent” in patent leather means the varnishing and drying process, not a registration with the U.S. governmental office.

From Slate ● May 28, 2014

They went on with their work of sanding or varnishing the newly finished benches, but they didn’t talk.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes