cheek
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"I had my wife with me and Sven came over gave her a peck on the cheek - she wasn't aware of who it was until I told her later that evening."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Fresh hair color, new weird spot on my cheek haha,” she wrote alongside the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The lyric is built almost entirely from humble, monosyllabic words: a warm smile, a soft cheek, a laugh that wrinkles the nose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Oxford maintained that he was innocent but agreed to give police a cheek swab for a DNA test.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The sun was shining on my back, and the wind brushed my cheek like fingers.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
In this alternate universe, beautiful people have pig snouts, distorted mouths, and sagging cheeks.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Add orange-rimmed eyes with jet-black pupils set against white cheeks, a dashing black under-eye line and a radiant round orange bill hinge, and the puffin looks like something invented by a talented circus makeup artist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"In Neapolitan culture, if a child is a little chubby with rosy cheeks, people often think they're healthy."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Others lined up to pay $10 to mall staff wearing "Face Painter" vests before posing for selfies with cheeks bearing their national side's colors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
My cheeks were bright red in both photos, but somehow I didn’t look like a lobster.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
