cosmetic surgery
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cosmetic surgery
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Some in Hollywood described AI use as the new cosmetic surgery, where everyone knows it is happening, but few will admit to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Her case is just one of an increasing number of failed -- sometimes fatal -- procedures in Central Asia, where cosmetic surgery is experiencing a social media-propelled boom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
These platforms don’t need beauty filters that show 12-year-olds what they’d look like after cosmetic surgery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
"I'm off to bed. Had another cosmetic surgery, trying to look differently, and I am dead tired and my head hurts," he wrote to one of the Bulgarians, Roussev, on Telegram in February 2022.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
What was a beauty parlour, a cosmetic surgery, for, if it could not be used to save them?
From The Ear in the Wall by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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