- present participle of dress.
dressing
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Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Other highlights include an open, corner living and dining room, walls of windows, a chef’s kitchen, and a main bedroom with a formal dressing area and an en suite bathroom with a soaking tub.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Now the company that made casual dressing cool in the ’90s is riding shotgun on another ’90s trend: the American boy band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Before the show, we sat down with Peck in his dressing room for a chat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The baker, the baker!” the children yelled, and ran around frantically dressing themselves in knitwear from head to toe.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The salad chain’s shares tumbled after hours, but it said it doesn’t use iceberg lettuce and only uses jalapeño peppers in two dressings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
He noted that jalapenos were used in only two of its dressings, and nowhere else on the menu.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Gruel recalls growing up in what he calls the “microwave generation,” in a house stocked with cereal, pasta, refined carbohydrates and premade salad dressings.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Instead he looked to our own Greek diet— our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, ourpilafi, raisins, and figs—as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
