polish
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One of the faces looked very similar, but when she looked more closely, the toenail polish didn't match.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
In a statement when the second delay was announced, Rockstar said it needed extra months to finish the game with the level of polish fans had come to "expect and deserve".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
One person uses the chatbot to polish a résumé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
With “The Sheep Detectives,” the film’s polish is its purpose.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
After she led him inside, he filled a bowl with warm water and dish soap, and after she’d retrieved her nail file and polish, he’d instructed her to put her hands into the water.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
One especially useful touch for travelers: the spa offers quick-drying traditional polishes, making it easier to get back to sightseeing without worrying about smudges.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
The phrase is self-explanatory, but Ms. Farr is insistent, so in her reading the woman polishes silver “until it gleamed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Aspinall finishes the day with a large portion of steak, eggs and rice and polishes it off with a final protein shake.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
A software program then uses these dimensions and the desired critical tolerances to guide the finishing device, which effectively polishes out any irregularities in the part.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps; he kicks mud off the running board, cleans the windows and windshield.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Then came artificial intelligence, which has made it easy for everyone to dash off a polished note on why they’re the best fit for the job — and do that repeatedly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hamawy led me through the polished medical half of the office to a room around the corner with a conference table and a messy whiteboard with leftover green-marker notes from the primary.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Not the most polished dancer - she described her own moves as "galumphing" - she made it to the semi-final before being knocked out.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But when we spoke about his second solo album, “Acomodo,” the Nayarit-born, Sinaloa-raised singer, whose real name is Jesús Roberto Laija García, arrived polished, perfumed and poised.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The only untoward incident he had was that someone once stepped on his newly polished shoes—on purpose, he said.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
If you want her to pay for the French polishing, you have an extra incentive to reopen this line of communication — and the wound.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
SpaceX, and the two big artificial-intelligence plays, Anthropic and OpenAI, are in various stages of polishing up their prospectuses and going public.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Two of her teenage sons work polishing shoes in the town centre.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
The “To be, or not to be” monologue came across as a rhetorical set piece that Hamlet has been polishing for ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
Floors look like someone just finished polishing them.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
