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'Airbrush' Your Way to Perfection — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: medium · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 3 min · 484 words

Topics: суспільство

'Airbrush' Your Way to Perfection

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And now Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.

On this program, we explore words and expressions in the English language.

Today we talk about the pursuit of perfection. Or at least the things we do to try and make things seem perfect.

If you paint something with a brush, it often leaves brush marks. When you paint with a roller, you might still have lines left behind by the roller.

Some consider this a flaw (something bad you that you don't want) in the paint job. So, people came up with a process to cover things up with a perfect layer of paint called “airbrush.”

The Airbrush Museum says in 1876, F.E. Stanley created a device that could spray watercolor and ink. Three years later…

Tap any word for its translation at once; the word goes into your deck together with its sentence.

Anna Matteo wrote this story for VOA Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/airbrush-your-way-to-perfection-/6581266.html

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