sheen
Example Sentences
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The lighting was key to avoiding the AI sheen that typically gets branded as “slop,” said Alimzhanov.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Apart from non-native speakers, there may be other subgroups of writers whose prose has the focus-grouped sheen of ChatGPT output.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
It has a gloss to it, a kind of quiet sheen that standard mayo simply does not.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The aesthetic favors deliberate roughness and mistakes over a sterile, polished sheen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Their russet hair looked almost gray in the color-stealing light of the moon, but each time they passed beneath a street lamp the auburn sheen glowed like an ember.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing sheen
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