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glossy

[glos-ee, glaw-see] / ˈglɒs i, ˈglɔ si /


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Oura’s glossy smart ring is everywhere these days: in high-profile TV ad campaigns and on the fingers of plenty of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

If everything still looks ready for a glossy farmers market photo shoot, give it another few minutes.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

And they give its contours just the right glossy sheen a hovering vehicle demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Inside, the grooms were brushing down beautiful, glossy horses, or cleaning their polished hooves, or braiding their long tails.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

They fit as naturally in cheap pulp magazines as in upmarket literary glossies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

That provided her the first step to move back East; she found a job at the Boston Phoenix and then the Boston Globe Magazine, and started writing for the glossies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

As a result, Ms. Lowit’s photographs exposed the humanity and the humor behind the famous faces of fashion, who often seemed frozen in an idealized state in the pages of the fashion glossies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

The well-made rock ‘n’ roll glossies on the market, like Mojo or Uncut, are British-based.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

All the glossies I’d pored over in my bedroom at home, admiring the gymnasts who’d reached the top of the sport.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

What begins as separate elements becomes something looser, glossier, edged in caramelization.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

In the last few years, the streamer has leaned into releasing holiday films that are glossier than those found on the Hallmark Channel and just as satisfying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

The budget for microdramas is usually between $100,000 and $250,000 for an entire season, compared with millions of dollars for glossier full-length shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The “Hazbin” pilot was weird and quirky, with outlandish humor and mature themes, and so is the series, even as it feels bigger, glossier and more expensive.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

All of them were from male cormorants whose feathers are thicker than those of the females and much glossier.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

And today, F1 isn’t merely one of Apple’s glossiest global partners with a blockbuster movie to show for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

For those still determined to aim for the furthest, glossiest reaches of the Benjamin Moore color wheel, there are some caveats.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

The U.K. pop rockers return to Sodo at their glossiest, riding high on this year’s ballyhooed “Being Funny in a Foreign Language.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Fashion likes to control its messaging, to frame its image and images in the glossiest, most perfect way possible.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2020

The richest and glossiest of curtains and tapestries draped the walls, looped back here and there to expose some richly-mounted painting or Oriental vase.

From The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




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