brushed

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Brushed with layers of gauzy strings, it's bound to become a wedding fixture along the lines of the star's earlier hits, Thinking Out Loud and Perfect.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021

Brushed with healthful olive oil, the dough is a lighter, better-for-you alternative to puff pastry or other pie doughs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2021

Brushed off by the scientific community, this fleeting star of biology would die, impoverished and ranting about how his “radiobes” held the clue to life.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021

Brushed gold, a single diamond, nothing to set the world on fire but the timing was right.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021

In youth we love the darkling lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then evening is preferred to dawn, And autumn to the spring.

From The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism by Whittier, John Greenleaf