burnished

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Stevens said his son’s value on the college market was based partly on the personal brand he burnished at a string of high-performing football programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Initial public euphoria over Pakistan's image being burnished on the global stage has begun to give way to fraying patience after weeks of stop-start restrictions around Islamabad.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

To many, the sight of Paul being clapped into cuffs may have even burnished her renegade image.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

I went to the island's modest-looking parliament, the body of it built in a Scandinavian style with wooden slats and painted the same burnished red as the Greenlandic flags fluttering by the entrance.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was — “Yeah, that’s a goblin,” said Hagrid quiedy as they walked up the white stone steps toward him.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling