cosmetic
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Her 2022 debut novel, “Aesthetica,” plumbed the lengths one aged-out influencer is willing to go to reverse her cosmetic surgeries.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Having bought the 12-acre property under the assumption that the main residence on the parcel would require some simple, cosmetic updates, the TV host found herself facing a much more mammoth task.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Critics say the changes she has made have been more cosmetic than structural.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
She believes when women suffer from clear physical symptoms as a result of having large breasts, reduction should be recognised as functional surgery, "not dismissed as cosmetic".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
I have been trying to interpret them as genuine weekends, as if, after spending the weekdays on futile and largely cosmetic labor, I had decided to volunteer to do something useful for a change.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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