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Recent Examples of plushness
Comfy couches for small spaces are all about the plushness element.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Typically, it’s also piled with throw pillows for additional plushness and personality.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
Comfort and plushness aside, the guest rooms have a neutral palette that does not take attention away from what’s waiting outside the room, either the turquoise-blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean or the property’s verdant green gardens.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
Canada Goose Mystique Puffer Coat The warm, puffy coat of your dreams, this Canada Goose find is filled with 750 power down and 10 percent feather down for cloud-like plushness.
—Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Typically, it’s also piled with throw pillows for additional plushness and personality.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
Comfort and plushness aside, the guest rooms have a neutral palette that does not take attention away from what’s waiting outside the room, either the turquoise-blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean or the property’s verdant green gardens.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
Canada Goose Mystique Puffer Coat The warm, puffy coat of your dreams, this Canada Goose find is filled with 750 power down and 10 percent feather down for cloud-like plushness.
—Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plushness
Noun
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There is a distinction worth drawing between luxury and beauty, or more precisely between opulence and grace.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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They were joined by jetlagged Europeans who looked legitimately awestruck by the sheer opulence of an American football stadium.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 June 2026
Noun
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Warm lighting enhances natural materials, brings out the richness of colors, and helps rooms feel more comfortable from dawn to dusk.—
Natasha Bazika,
Martha Stewart,
14 June 2026
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Pour the bacon fat and drippings from the bottom of the pan in the skillet, as this lends lovely richness and extra flavor.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2026
Noun
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Each of the Maisons is represented via artifacts that tell their unique stories of sumptuousness and cultural dialogue that helped shape diplomacy, identity, and popular culture.—
Nancy Olson,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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In the sumptuousness of the bibliophile’s parlor, studying Black history occasioned reverent, joyous gatherings.—
Laura E. Helton,
Literary Hub,
20 Apr. 2026
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There’s an understated lavishness; no celebrity interior designers have been let loose and rooms have a lustrous palette of pinks, yellows and blues.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2026
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Of course, Carly’s kitsch far outdid her neighbors’ in its oddness, luridness, lavishness.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, desperate to connect with the grandeur of antiquity and left bitterly disappointed by his visit to Rome, eventually arrived in this once-vibrant center of the extended Greek empire.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness.—
Pope Leo XIV,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
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Baird added that interest in luxury homes has increased recently among SpaceX's mid-30s to early-40s employee base, according to California real estate agents.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
13 June 2026
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And the video of the TV unfurling like a monstrous robot in the corner of your luxury living room is worth watching too.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 June 2026
Noun
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Each piece spells out a message—happiness, beauty, and magnificence—in the ancient pictorial writing.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
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Championing not just human magnificence but human imperfection is a radical turn.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2023
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The comic luxuriance of Roman references should not blind us to the significance of these constant appeals to the Roman Republic and to classical virtue.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2022
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“Plushness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plushness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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