as in beautician
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a person whose job is to give beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
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Recent Examples of cosmetologist
Should licensed manicurists be treated differently from licensed cosmetologists under California’s employment law?
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Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Christina Williams began her career as a licensed cosmetologist, initially believing her purpose was to help women look beautiful.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
She’s been a licensed cosmetologist for over six years and is widely respected for her natural hair knowledge.
—Celeste Polanco, Essence, 6 Feb. 2025
Practical Tips for the Exhausted Wy Mac, a licensed cosmetologist, empathized with those who may feel too tired to dry their hair.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Christina Williams began her career as a licensed cosmetologist, initially believing her purpose was to help women look beautiful.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
She’s been a licensed cosmetologist for over six years and is widely respected for her natural hair knowledge.
—Celeste Polanco, Essence, 6 Feb. 2025
Practical Tips for the Exhausted Wy Mac, a licensed cosmetologist, empathized with those who may feel too tired to dry their hair.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Now relatives in New York and Colombia are mourning the bright entrepreneurial woman who her sister said dreamed of becoming a beautician and sold tamales and empanadas in the neighborhood during summer months.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
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The beautician puts white stickers on Lina’s moles, explaining that the laser will burn only dark things.—
Elif Batuman,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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If all that counts is inward essence, what the hell were those teams of makeup artists, coiffeurs, and cinematographers employed by the major studios, in the golden age, doing all day?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2024
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Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.—
Elizabeth Stone,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2024
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“Cosmetologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmetologist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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