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Vaseline

[vas-uh-leen, vas-uh-leen]

Trademark.
  1. a brand of petrolatum.



Vaseline

/ ˈvæsɪˌliːn /

noun

  1. a trademark for petrolatum

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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MacPhail woke at 2:20 a.m. and applied toe caps, duct tape and Vaseline to his feet.

Miranda likes to rub Vaseline on her hands and put them inside luxury conditioning gloves while watching infomercials, while Charlotte loves to study her pores in a magnifying mirror for one whole hour every night.

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In the sense that television is a lens through which we view ourselves, it’s as often as not a cracked one, or one smeared with Vaseline, to make things crazier or prettier.

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A Unilever marketing executive described how the Vaseline brand had thrived by tapping into a TikTok skin care trend known as “slugging.”

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"When we compared the gene expression in the nose, Neosporin stimulated genes whereas those people who had Vaseline did not."

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