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caressing

[kuh-res-ing] / kəˈrɛs ɪŋ /




NOUN
tickling
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“I’m lucky I’m from the best country in the world, and we’ve got great dentists there, too,” Hughes said while caressing the gold medal hanging from his neck.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

With the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, he shows them off beautifully, caressing them in light so that they look lit from within.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Big soft caressing flakes fall onto our sin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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