retouch
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Ohtani failed to retouch second base while returning to first on a deep flyout by Freddie Freeman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
In her statement, the 42-year-old princess chalked up the alteration to a photographer’s innocent desire to retouch the image.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
The sponge tool, on the other hand, works to help retouch images by saturating or desaturating color, allowing users to fine-tune how vibrant their images and art look.
From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2021
Greene told Fox News that her daughter’s school picture hadn’t even been taken yet when she was given the option to retouch the photo.
From Fox News ● Nov. 2, 2021
You could retouch the paint on the bathroom windowsill, and after you do it you could warn me so that I don’t put my watch on it.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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There are retouches to the original tale, updates to conform to modern sensibilities and a few winking asides to the audience, but the basic recipe of a whodunit spoof is preserved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
On Saturday night, after everyone goes to bed, Mom steals into the kitchen under cover of night and rolls the Hostess Ding-Dong away from the door of the Empty Tomb Cake, then retouches the frosting.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2013
Following Mass, Francis will remove seals on papal apartments so that crews can do small retouches before the new pope moves in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013
Joachim, and the shepherd with the larkspur cap, are both quite safe; the other shepherd a little reinforced; the black bunches of grass, hanging about are retouches.
From Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin
The painting had to be retouched on game day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
He also found scrapers and other retouched pieces known as Mousterian stone artifacts that suggested the cave had been used by Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
For teens, this seamless integration of celebrities and retouched versions of real-life peers presents a ripe environment for upward social comparison, or comparing yourself to someone who is “better” in some respect.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
The models look “so retouched that they seem more like A.I.-generated bots than actual people,” Vanessa Friedman, The Times’s chief fashion critic, writes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Someone had retouched the photo and painted Henrietta’s face an unnatural yellow.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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His large-scale, photorealistic paintings render L.A.’s visual language through tools like commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting and manual sign painting traditions, creating a unique commentary on image making and the city’s systems of communication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
Some kinds of retouching require old-school edits from other Adobe software like Lightroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The BBC's Emma Vardy said she was retouching her makeup for some final Oscars filming when the quake struck.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
The proud grandmother revealed that she told magazine staffers she did not want retouching done on her SI Swimsuit photos — even dishing that she had a cheeseburger the day before her shoot.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
It startled Ifemelu, how much a relaxer retouching cost at Aunty Uju’s hair salon; the haughty hairdressers sized up each customer, eyes swinging from head to shoes, to decide how much attention she was worth.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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