plumbing

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I was told my treatments would take weeks or months to kick in, slowly tightening and plumping up my skin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

I would call it deliberate, unhurried, and a smarter way to fill eight hours of television than plumping it up with extraneous plots and characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

There’s a lot of plumping going on every day in Seattle — a city with more than 6,000 active Airbnb properties.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Makaya McCraven, the Chicago-based drummer and producer, spent years recording, stitching together and plumping up the tracks that appear on “In These Times.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

“Where did you learn about a plumping mill?”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George