cosmeticizing

verb

present participle of cosmeticize
as in sprucing

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  1. improving
  2. embellishing
  3. tricking
Verb
  • Pawloski said Amazon seemed to invest fewer resources into improving MTurk at the same time as more data labeling services arrived, causing many turkers to shift to competing platforms.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The broader shift is that AI content quality is improving while the barrier to creation is becoming lower.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of improving
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  • This week, the retailer shared an Instagram video showing a woman applying a Biodance face mask before embellishing the product with colorful plastic gems.
    — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Despite embellishing his movie with period-accurate clothes, decor, and music, Mitchell has no deep attachment to the period at all.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of embellishing
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  • In many cases, the robot tail wags the living dog by tricking it—tricking us—into caring about obscure metrics, then gamifying the process of improving them.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Children were taken by tricking mothers, who were told their baby had died during childbirth.
    — Ashoka, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of tricking
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“Cosmeticizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmeticizing. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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