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glossy

[glos-ee, glaw-see] / ˈglɒs i, ˈglɔ si /


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Evans initially seems to think they’re participating in a project closer to Netflix’s glossy portrait of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Some were intact and she was surprised to see they still contained a viscous, glossy residue.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

And they give its contours just the right glossy sheen a hovering vehicle demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The roses woke first, their buds growing fat in anticipation of warmer days, new thorns sprouting on branches and the glossy leaves unfurling.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

It was a place where diners squinted at fading celebrity glossies on the wall and said, “Isn’t that the guy who—?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

They fit as naturally in cheap pulp magazines as in upmarket literary glossies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The well-made rock ‘n’ roll glossies on the market, like Mojo or Uncut, are British-based.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

I called ABC’s publicity department and I soon had a couple of 8x10 glossies of me and the star of “Dark Shadows” in the men’s toiletries department at Stern’s.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

All the glossies I’d pored over in my bedroom at home, admiring the gymnasts who’d reached the top of the sport.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

What had been brothy turned to something thicker, glossier — golden, almost velvety.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

The budget for microdramas is usually between $100,000 and $250,000 for an entire season, compared with millions of dollars for glossier full-length shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Glossy is glossy, but for a few seconds, we believe that some gloss is glossier than others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

Horror is one of those examples where the glossier something is the less scary it is.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Even so, his eyes look glossier, and the blue irises take on a lovely, reflective sheen.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

And today, F1 isn’t merely one of Apple’s glossiest global partners with a blockbuster movie to show for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

For those still determined to aim for the furthest, glossiest reaches of the Benjamin Moore color wheel, there are some caveats.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

The U.K. pop rockers return to Sodo at their glossiest, riding high on this year’s ballyhooed “Being Funny in a Foreign Language.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

It’s my first FaceTime, and I’m nervous, having watched all week as even the glossiest cable news shows have downshifted into low-tech “Wayne’s World” basement productions.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020

They all declared, as did Long Tom Ham, who came over from Lucky Bight to see the pelt, that it was the blackest, thickest and longest furred, and glossiest silver fox they had ever seen.

From Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North by Dillon Wallace


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