burnished
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That helped boost its moderating credentials, burnished by its allyship with heavyweight regional players, including Saudi Arabia and Beijing.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
To many, the sight of Paul being clapped into cuffs may have even burnished her renegade image.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
Some of big tech’s sidelines and acquisitions have turned into excellent businesses, and those triumphs have burnished the faith we have in their “celebrity CEOs and celebrity founders.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
By the time Jackson declared his 1984 presidential campaign, he had burnished his foreign policy credentials.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing burnished
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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The Time Machine
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