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retouch

[ree-tuhch, ree-tuhch, ree-tuhch] / riˈtʌtʃ, ˈriˌtʌtʃ, riˈtʌtʃ /


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It will be cleaned, and “where there have been small losses, they will fill those and retouch them.”

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2023

The sponge tool, on the other hand, works to help retouch images by saturating or desaturating color, allowing users to fine-tune how vibrant their images and art look.

From The Verge Dec. 14, 2021

"To actually retouch and change a child’s features, you’re basically saying you’re not good enough the way you are, so I’m going to pay to have you made better," Greene said.

From Fox News Nov. 2, 2021

But he didn’t retouch second on his way back, leading to a double play.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 2021

You could retouch the paint on the bathroom windowsill, and after you do it you could warn me so that I don’t put my watch on it.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

To this day, when the pool is drained, the hotel retouches the lines, refreshing Hockney’s iconic blue half-moon marks every year or so.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2025

Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.

From The Guardian Jun. 21, 2015

On Saturday night, after everyone goes to bed, Mom steals into the kitchen under cover of night and rolls the Hostess Ding-Dong away from the door of the Empty Tomb Cake, then retouches the frosting.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2013

Following Mass, Francis will remove seals on papal apartments so that crews can do small retouches before the new pope moves in.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 14, 2013

Joachim, and the shepherd with the larkspur cap, are both quite safe; the other shepherd a little reinforced; the black bunches of grass, hanging about are retouches.

From Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin

The painting had to be retouched on game day.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2025

He also found scrapers and other retouched pieces known as Mousterian stone artifacts that suggested the cave had been used by Neanderthals.

From Science Daily Nov. 21, 2023

Even in studies in which participants knew the photos they were shown on Instagram were retouched and reshaped, adolescent girls still felt worse about their bodies after viewing them.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

Norway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched.

From BBC May 14, 2023

He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

His large-scale, photorealistic paintings render L.A.’s visual language through tools like commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting and manual sign painting traditions, creating a unique commentary on image making and the city’s systems of communication.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

Some kinds of retouching require old-school edits from other Adobe software like Lightroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

The BBC's Emma Vardy said she was retouching her makeup for some final Oscars filming when the quake struck.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2025

When the ball got past Joey Votto, Rocchio took off for second without retouching first.

From Washington Times Aug. 17, 2023

It startled Ifemelu, how much a relaxer retouching cost at Aunty Uju’s hair salon; the haughty hairdressers sized up each customer, eyes swinging from head to shoes, to decide how much attention she was worth.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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