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“When something has a veneer that is very pleasant and there’s no messiness or warts, you wonder if there’s something going on underneath,” Kelly says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

He pointed out its texture, a reeded feel rather than a typical veneer finish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Jolie’s work is bold, and almost imperceptibly so, quietly channeling a part of herself that is entirely removed from the veneer of fame and celebrity.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

They didn’t do that because they wanted to have the trappings and the veneer of making it look as if it were a real federal case.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

They are wonderfully built homes, aluminum skins, doublewalled, with insulation, and often paneled with veneer of hardwood.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The material can also be used on exposed dentine, creating an enamel-like coating that helps reduce tooth sensitivity and improves how restorations, such as fillings or veneers, bond to the tooth surface.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2025

By continually utilizing veneers and components from past maze builds, the distinctive landscape and the talents of passionate, volunteers, Shireman continued to conjure an entertaining enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

Before undergoing the treatment, performed under local anaesthetic, she said her surgeon told her she would have a sinus lift and a bone graft, along with removing her veneers and having implants put in.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025

Veneers are a norm in Hollywood now, and there’s even speculation that Donald Trump’s too-perfect teeth are actually veneers.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025

The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Even crime in Orange County has been sensationalized and glamorized, with themes veneered by opulence, secrecy and illusions of suburban perfection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

It was the first house I had ever been in that did not have wardrobes, no three-piece set of veneered chipboard, that leaned precariously as the glue loosened in the dowels.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020

They had veneered calluses where my palms touched my fingers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017

It was a rare moment of candor in an otherwise characteristically veneered Apple presentation.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2016

The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

A renovation in 2000 had tried to make the still-open parts of the site more traditionally Moroccan, veneering the concrete with green tile and carved wooden panels.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019

Saco and his team of highly skilled artisans perform a wide range of museum-quality work, from the simplest cosmetic touch-ups and refinishing to caning, inlay, veneering, upholstery and recreation of missing parts.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2015

We have one man in veneering and we used to have three.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2012

At first a supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he grew scornful of the President's caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been sent early to St. Asaph's School that he might associate with the sons of gentlemen and become a gentleman himself, but he had acquired only the outward veneering.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various