veneer
Example Sentences
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They come with this veneer of society’s expectations and all of these things.
From Los Angeles Times
Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has a warning for investors looking to invest in companies adopting artificial intelligence: Avoid those that are using AI to put a “veneer” on existing services.
From MarketWatch
Her curls fell in a thick curtain down to her chest, the thin veneer of life and color vanishing from her face, her eyes.
From Literature
Even crime in Orange County has been sensationalized and glamorized, with themes veneered by opulence, secrecy and illusions of suburban perfection.
From Los Angeles Times
Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
