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Recent Examples of tressInstead, her dirty blond tresses were loosely waved, which was the work of her longtime hairstylist Ken Paves, who famously works with Eva Longoria.—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 24 July 2025 Next, grab a claw clip and twist your tresses around two to three times (depending on how thick your hair is), until the curls appear at the top and fall effortlessly.—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 22 July 2025 Midway through the show, Cher ditched her icy hair backstage and stepped back out with her famous black tresses.—Michelle Lee, People.com, 14 July 2025 In more photos that surfaced Tuesday (July 7), Roan — now wearing an oversize suit but still sporting the absurd extensions in her tresses — shoots a sequence in which a taxi cab appears to drag her by the hair through the street.—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for tress
In 1995, Warren Sapp was a lock to go inside the top five.
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Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
Big West regular-season champion Hawaii, which beat Long Beach on its home court twice in the regular season, and MIVA champion Ball State (25-4) appear to be locks for the other top-four seeds.
While Republicans made the tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, these minor tax cuts for a few ordinary Americans are short-lived.
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Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
8 July 2025
But that is still a sizable market; a 2020 analysis found that 10.5 million Americans used home hair permanents and relaxers, and clients are still having their hair relaxed at salons.
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Linda Villarosa Robin Miles Krish Seenivasan Alec K. Redfearn,
New York Times,
13 June 2024
This time, my eyes slid to the fresh silver polish on her fingernails, her cascading perm thick but without any undergrowth, and those eyes darting from me to the cop, glistening as if on the verge of pouring.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Mar. 2026
For those wanting even more body, Destin says a modern perm can help add long-lasting texture to fine hair.
Financially dependent on her parents throughout her youth and confused by waves of calm or small kindnesses, Gross wrestled with distancing herself for some time before cutting contact with her parents and brothers as an adult.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
When the Fontainebleau Hotel faced a skeptical city board and a wave of community opposition to a plan to add water slides to its pool deck, the hotel’s billionaire owner pushed successfully for a change to state law to move the project forward.