polished

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Sponsors’ largess in turn is transforming hobby clubs from the cozy and unassuming groups of generations past into more polished and entrepreneurial organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

For audiences long used to polished TV comedy, the impact felt electric: humour that was not defined by censors but was messy, daring and alive in real time.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

For Bennett, the emergence of modern country music in the early 2000s -- with a highly polished, more pop sound and repeated "melodic shapes" -- is key.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

His hair was neither long nor short, and his shoes had been polished to exactly the shine that attracts no comment.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell