veneer

Example Sentences

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Light streams in through almost panoramic windows onto pale leather seats and polished wood veneer.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

According to critics, this symbiosis creates a scientific veneer for state violence, allowing law enforcement to brand old tactics of containment and harassment as “precise” and “data-driven.”

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Instead, he seems as if he’s trying to lacquer on a veneer of righteousness to some very nasty business.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

Jesse’s normally cautious veneer would peel away in a second at the appearance of an interesting idea or argument.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz