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Recent Examples of polish off
Layer in a black tee as a neutral base, and polish off with a matching suede handbag to keep the textural moment going.
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Laura Jackson, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
The champions will polish off the meal with a warm chocolate-chip skillet cookie and vanilla-bean ice cream.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025
San Diego showed that getting hot late and simply getting in can create a fresh reality by polishing off the Braves and pushing the Dodgers to within three runs of elimination.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
For a downtown feel, polish off the look in a pair of suede retro sneakers from Vince and Freja’s east-west, top-handle bag.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
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Laura Jackson, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
The champions will polish off the meal with a warm chocolate-chip skillet cookie and vanilla-bean ice cream.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025
San Diego showed that getting hot late and simply getting in can create a fresh reality by polishing off the Braves and pushing the Dodgers to within three runs of elimination.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
For a downtown feel, polish off the look in a pair of suede retro sneakers from Vince and Freja’s east-west, top-handle bag.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polish off
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For example, when City finished the 2022-23 campaign in fourth, were knocked out of both cup competitions and failed to qualify for the Champions League group stages.—
Charlotte Harpur,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Quadruple bogey, double bogey, par, double bogey, bogey to finish a third-round 78.—
Brody Miller,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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If the Steakhouse’s menu winds up similar to the Reserve’s, locals accustomed to wolfing chili burgers at Star Country Cafe will need to dust off their wallets.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
29 Jan. 2025
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There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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At this age, kids can make their own beds, vacuum and sweep floors, take out the trash, and fold and put away laundry.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
13 Mar. 2025
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At Hoover, students are still allowed to keep their phones, but they must be put away in backpacks.—
Linh Ta,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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As the medical profession came to consider cocaine and morphine as equally dangerous, coca became associated with opium, and the public was led to believe that the ruinous effects of habitual opium use would inevitably befall those who regularly chewed coca leaves.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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There is a test laboratory where samples of materials and finished bags are put through their paces, and a repair workshop where a weathered brown bag awaited rescue, its flap chewed by a dog.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Polish off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polish%20off. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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