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The BBC's Emma Vardy said she was retouching her makeup for some final Oscars filming when the quake struck.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025

The chassis got quite hot while I was retouching a batch of photos in Lightroom.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2022

Byron was retouching, as the sheets passed through the press, the stanzas of 'Childe Harold'.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

She gave them much practical advice, told them that one of the most lucrative employments was retouching photographs, and implored them to cultivate any talent they might have and market it as soon as possible.

From The Living Present by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn