sheen
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And “My Way,” about a backstabbing girl who crossed a line with Ms. Rodrigo’s boyfriend, is pop-punk with a new-wave sheen, a combination of sounds that brings to mind Paramore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 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
Apart from non-native speakers, there may be other subgroups of writers whose prose has the focus-grouped sheen of ChatGPT output.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Anytime the film veers into computer-generated territory, it takes on a sheen of cheesy artifice.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
The moon, now waxing round, filled the eastern sky with a pale cold sheen.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing sheen
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