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veneer
noun as in pretense, front
Example Sentences
“You take an area of science that has gotten a lot of media coverage and taken a foothold in culture, and you use that language to give your product a veneer of legitimacy.”
Her last album, 2023’s divisive but underrated “Strays,” leaned all the way into psychedelic rock, a cosmic exploration of life without the hazy veneer of alcohol.
She decided to travel to Antalya in April 2024 to get four dental implants after previously having veneers fitted in the country.
Tom Andrews, the United Nation's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, had in June accused the junta of designing a "mirage of an election exercise" to give itself a veneer of legitimacy.
Pollmeier in Germany, for example, has BauBuche – a laminated veneer lumber, very thin layers of wood pressed and glued together – made using beech.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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