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Trump’s pardon czar, Alice Marie Johnson, recently took to social media saying that people have been impersonating her and asking for a “processing fee” to help smooth the path to clemency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

So the smooth thing has been quite the ‘in thing’ for men going on 30 years now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

As I found out when I became the first UK journalist to hail one, it was mostly smooth but the safety driver did intervene on one occasion.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

We’ve watched celebrities undertake this shape-shifting toward pillowy lips, smooth foreheads, high cheekbones.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

While Phobos is heavily marked by craters, Deimos appears smoother because much of its surface is covered by loose dust and rocky debris known as regolith.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Gatwood hoped to put in a new fence and was raking some rocks and dirt to make the yard smoother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

When it came to their second, he hoped for a much smoother arrival.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The military has proposed a series of multiyear agreements instead of annual purchases to guarantee a smoother supply of weaponry over time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The computer-controlled descent was taking Eagle into an area covered with huge boulders, and Neil had to keep flying until he found a smoother spot to land.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Heidi Alexander and Apostolos Tzitzikostas agreed to "work together with aim for smoothest possible EES checks ahead of the busy summer period", the UK government said.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

“SPR releases go the smoothest when you can release something very close to what’s been lost,” said Andrew Harbourne, analyst at Wood Mackenzie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

But it hasn’t always been the smoothest ride.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

“Right now, my skin is the smoothest and clearest it’s been in forever,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

She scattered a big load of acorns on the hearth stones and looked at them with satisfaction before she began to break the little shells with her smoothest pounding rock.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

In this cosmic battle, dark energy appears to be winning — expanding our universe over trillions of years until everything thins and smooths out into almost nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

It removes friction, smooths edges, and hands you the answer before you’ve had a chance to reach for it yourself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The combination smooths earnings compared to pure production-driven models.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

Stockpiles can also be used to help manage prices, selling when prices are high and buying when prices are low, which smooths out commodity cycles for mining companies.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

He smooths his hand over the surface, unsure, so Abuela starts a corner of it for him.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Munich's Allianz Arena is sculpted by thousands of diamond-shaped inflatable cushions, while Sydney's similarly-named Allianz Stadium has a flatter façade smoothed with long bronze fins.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Ahead of the opening arguments, Rinderknecht smoothed back his hair and his lawyer helped adjust his tie, before giving him a pat on the back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

“Over time, he stuck closer to his briefing book. The sharp edges were smoothed, reducing points of conflict as well as the information content,”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026

I smoothed out the letter from Mountford Prep, and folded it back along the creases, and put it in the bottom drawer of my dresser with my swim trunks.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

During the album’s rollout, the pop star’s visage was perfected with the help of some uncanny AI smoothing, while her accompanying “Confessions II” short film featured a team of AI artists in the credits.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

It can work for some people who prefer the “pull off the Band-Aid approach,” but for most, smoothing out the tax consequences works best.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

The visit was officially meant to celebrate transatlantic ties as the United States marks its 250th anniversary of independence from Britain, but much of Charles's time has been spent smoothing over tensions over Iran.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Misha looked back at Anya, smoothing his coat down with sharp jerks.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack