fillers

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Instead, nurse practitioners have become major gap fillers, growing their ranks by 60% to 461,000 between 2019 and 2025, data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners show.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Women routinely turn to fillers and surgery to force a level of symmetry and balance we aren’t naturally meant to have as a result of this absurd kind of standard.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

Still, that’s kind of the point: For him, puzzles should motivate solvers to be more than half-thinking box fillers.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Earlier this year, Charli XCX told her nine million Instagram followers that she felt "fillers are kind of over now", and explained she had moved onto polynucleotides, which are "kinda like deep vitamins".

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

His lips are full, not from a makeup trick or fake-looking fillers like back home.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera