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Recent Examples of once-over
Check For Pests Give every plant a once-over before bringing them indoors.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2024
Using a Dry Cleaning Cloth While Dusting Giving your furniture and shelves a once-over with a duster can stir up potential allergens, says Alan Goldsobel, MD, an allergist based in San Jose.
—Alyssa Shaffer, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
And truly, a medical pedicure isn’t your average nail salon appointment: Performed by technicians trained to spot the difference between a callus and psoriasis, say, every session begins with a once-over of the feet to assess their condition.
—Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
It’s also given the once-over by KEF’s Music Integrity Engine digital signal processing algorithms, just to be on the safe side.
—Simon Lucas, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
To avoid this most irritating scenario, give your high-traffic or mess-prone areas a quick once-over with the vacuum.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
Consumers will have an opportunity to customize items, and Hourglass makeup artists will be on site to provide once-overs and the brand’s signature beauty services.
—Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Under World Triathlon rules, for the athletes to swim, competition waters must fulfill certain laboratory criteria, and also pass a sniff test and a visual once-over.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
Aries March 21 – April 19 Your surroundings could use a once-over.
—Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2024
Using a Dry Cleaning Cloth While Dusting Giving your furniture and shelves a once-over with a duster can stir up potential allergens, says Alan Goldsobel, MD, an allergist based in San Jose.
—Alyssa Shaffer, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
And truly, a medical pedicure isn’t your average nail salon appointment: Performed by technicians trained to spot the difference between a callus and psoriasis, say, every session begins with a once-over of the feet to assess their condition.
—Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
It’s also given the once-over by KEF’s Music Integrity Engine digital signal processing algorithms, just to be on the safe side.
—Simon Lucas, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
To avoid this most irritating scenario, give your high-traffic or mess-prone areas a quick once-over with the vacuum.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
Consumers will have an opportunity to customize items, and Hourglass makeup artists will be on site to provide once-overs and the brand’s signature beauty services.
—Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Under World Triathlon rules, for the athletes to swim, competition waters must fulfill certain laboratory criteria, and also pass a sniff test and a visual once-over.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
Aries March 21 – April 19 Your surroundings could use a once-over.
—Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for once-over
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Below are some of my very favorites and top performers at a wide variety of price points for your perusal.Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2024
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Here, for your perusal, is a list of all 32 trades that happened on the last day before the deadline (and one from Monday).Levi Weaver, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
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The Senate meets at 11 a.m. The president will join first lady Jill Biden to host the first-ever White House Conference on women’s health research in the East Room at 11:30 a.m.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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The university teams' earlier research in 2022 calculated that about half of all Americans alive in 2015 were likely exposed to damaging levels of lead in their childhood, based on population survey data and known levels of leaded gasoline use in the country.Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Lost during last week’s inquisition into the Hail Mary and botched fullback dive was a careful examination of more macro issues the Bears are dealing with.Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her dark comedy The Antipodes imagines a writers’ room as an extractive inquisition with men demanding everyone spin their most personal confessions into content while munching on takeout and sipping LaCroix.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
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Later this week, the five people charged in his death will face interrogations by the city’s justice department during multiple hearings.Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
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Yes, the interrogation videos were leaked to [producer] Alex Gibney around the spring of 2023.Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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