burnish
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Next month's World Cup, where Los Angeles is hosting eight matches, was supposed to allow the Californian metropolis to burnish its image, just two years before the city hosts the Olympic Games.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
For Delhi, the leadership summit will be important to further burnish its credentials as a growing geopolitical power, and it will want it to go ahead.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Curt Sampson’s book doesn’t look to burnish the institution: It provides a forensic examination of Augusta National’s past.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Tech billionaires looking to burnish their image seem to believe that the work ethic is an expendable feature of a free-market society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
It’s a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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