retouch
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Ohtani failed to retouch second base while returning to first on a deep flyout by Freddie Freeman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
In her statement, the 42-year-old princess chalked up the alteration to a photographer’s innocent desire to retouch the image.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
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
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
She examines it, retouches it, and notices that that upper lip is remarkably similar to the Mona Lisa.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2021
Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
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
What a washing and spluttering! what a boot-blacking and hair brushing! what retouches and last glances into the glass!
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
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
For teens, this seamless integration of celebrities and retouched versions of real-life peers presents a ripe environment for upward social comparison, or comparing yourself to someone who is “better” in some respect.
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 proud grandmother revealed that she told magazine staffers she did not want retouching done on her SI Swimsuit photos — even dishing that she had a cheeseburger the day before her shoot.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
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
