- present participle of dress.
dressing
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I don't know whether at that stage of the tour he just wanted to be out of the dressing room rather than in it, but it helped me.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
It appeared as cooking oil, frying fat, shortening, salad dressing, mayonnaise and an inconspicuous ingredient in packaged foods.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
There’s a certain philosophy to dressing the body in Japan where the clothing obscures the body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The communal mirrors outside Aritzia dressing rooms give the style advisers another chance to sell but have also led to backlash like the Substack post you mention, “Hell Is an Aritzia Fitting Room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Clutching a powder puff in one hand and a container of face powder in the other, Lady Constance ran out of her dressing room, down the stairs, and out the front door of Ashton Place.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
He noted that jalapenos were used in only two of its dressings, and nowhere else on the menu.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Gruel recalls growing up in what he calls the “microwave generation,” in a house stocked with cereal, pasta, refined carbohydrates and premade salad dressings.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Add it to everything from salad dressings to strawberries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
“I was able to mix up two of the salad dressings, but I didn’t have time to get to the ranch yet...”
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
