veneer

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How to use veneer in a sentence

That was very taboo in the scientific community, where you were supposed to maintain this veneer of objective distance from research subjects.

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Flack takes its time dismantling its characters’ empowered veneers.

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There’s a veneer of professionalism to everything Lovato does and says in Dancing With the Devil, not out of dishonesty or evasion, but perhaps because she knows how many young people hang on her every word.

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Over the next months, Pinterest’s warm, fuzzy veneer would unravel like one of the platform’s chunky knitted sweaters.

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It’s made of recyclable materials and finished with a stylish walnut veneer that allows it to blend in naturally in almost any home setup.

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Taking this example further, as it stands, the teams in tier one markets such as New York, London, Chicago or Los Angeles are expected to put the veneer on the work coming somewhere like India or the Philippines.

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What’s worse, it may cloak a process that remains as fundamentally arbitrary and biased as Gladwell argues in an ever more pseudoscientific veneer.

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Only when the nostalgic veneer cracks and the more urgent story taking shape beyond that artificial TV world starts to shine through, in the second episode, does the series come into its own.

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The veneer was gone now; Sheila Carmack's eyes were vicious pools of hate, her mouth a grimace.

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Her disposition was sour and malevolent, despite its elegant veneer.

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