fillers
Example Sentences
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Instead, nurse practitioners have become major gap fillers, growing their ranks by 60% to 461,000 between 2019 and 2025, data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners show.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Women routinely turn to fillers and surgery to force a level of symmetry and balance we aren’t naturally meant to have as a result of this absurd kind of standard.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026
Other contributors said beauty content online was "unavoidable" - including posts promoting cosmetic procedures such as lip fillers.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Still, that’s kind of the point: For him, puzzles should motivate solvers to be more than half-thinking box fillers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
His lips are full, not from a makeup trick or fake-looking fillers like back home.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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