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[sheen] / ʃin /


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What was once tucked into corners of the internet is now visible just beneath the sheen of any social media algorithm.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Environmental open-source investigator Wim Zwijnenburg, from Dutch peace organisation PAX, gave the same estimate for the August 4 sheen.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

They brilliantly reveal Babitz’s eye for the deep shallow as well as explore the porous boundary between the largely self-inflicted injuries of her private life and the glittering sheen of her public persona.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Bayern may have gone out against Paris St-Germain in a classic two-leg Champions League semi-final, but this cannot take the sheen off Kane's stunning season.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Her usually sleek hair is matted, its silver sheen faded.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The extravagant display featured satin sheens showcasing Mabille’s signature styles.

From Seattle Times Jan. 23, 2024

The volume of oil spilled has not been determined, but activists have published images of polluted farmland, water surfaces blighted by oil sheens and dead fish mired in sticky crude.

From Washington Times Jun. 26, 2023

In astronomy, iconic images, like the “pillars of creation” or a black hole’s event horizon, are beautiful and awe-inspiring, but what we see is essentially made of numbers rather than imperceptibly sheer sheens of paint.

From Scientific American Nov. 16, 2022

Because some paints can be used on a variety of surfaces, they may be available in a wider range of sheens.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2022

It was crow colored—black, but with petrol sheens of green and purple and deep blue—but the underside of its wings was red.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times Nov. 13, 2023

Sparkling catsuits sheened like the shiny slug trails left in the forest at dawn.

From Seattle Times Oct. 4, 2021

And that would force us to confront our bodies as they really are; not the buffed, sheened perfection of youth, but the bumps, wrinkles and dry patches of middle age.

From The Guardian Nov. 20, 2019

Def Leppard sold tons of records, back when musicians used to do that, with a heavy metal sound sheened to pop perfection on songs like “Photograph” and “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 29, 2019

The train rolled past scrap and recycling yards, men and women’s backs sheened mirror bright with sweat as they stacked hand carts with purchased scrap and moved it to weighing platforms for sale.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

The sweat sheening Kendrick’s forehead minutes into the show.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2022

Crews working to replace steep plate walls had noticed light sheening, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2022

There was minimal sheening seen near the Juneau-Douglas Bridge, said Bressler, and the Coast Guard and DEC will monitor it over the weekend.

From Washington Times Sep. 14, 2015

Added Mr. Stone: “We were just sheening our heads off.”

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2011

She is next to him, sitting back on her heels, hands folded in her lap, her dark kimono sheening in the half light, and gazing at him the way she did this afternoon, steadily, intently.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston




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