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- verb Present participle of
air-brush .
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Examples
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Surprising comments perhaps, given that last year she called for the air-brushing kitemark as part of the Lib Dems' Body Confidence campaign.
Supermodel Erin O'Connor slams fashion world for lying to women 2011
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Sure, we know all about photo-shopping and air-brushing, and we know it's not real.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Are Women "Pornified" by Popular Media? Barbara 2011
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The thickly seamed exhibit thus produced must have been grotesque; but in the taxidermic equivalent of air-brushing, Akeley redeemed this patchwork monster by rubbing a special gray putty all over it.
Wildlife Without Life Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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Sure, we know all about photo-shopping and air-brushing, and we know it's not real.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Are Women "Pornified" by Popular Media? Barbara 2011
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There has also been a backlash against some of the more notorious uses of air-brushing.
New York Fashion Week champions curves in a catwalk revolution 2010
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Even with air-brushing, I could never look like that.
Sarah Lovinger: Should a Former Playboy Model Trump an Experienced Health Care Expert? You Decide 2009
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Perhaps it's of a piece with our age: Plastic surgery and air-brushing are no longer sufficient improvements on models who already possess impossible beauty -- now it's common for their images to be digitally manipulated, their lithe figures stretched into ever more preposterous images of perfection.
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Nations have been air-brushing the homicidal and wretched bits from their histories for years.
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No measure of air-brushing can cover up for that fact.
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Someone at Elle might get fired for air-brushing Jessica Simpson to the point of non-recognition.
Fashion News Round-Up: Donatella's Gala; Von Furstenberg's Administration; Beyonc��'s Sister 2008
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