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• n  coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
• n  an ornamental coating to a building
• v  cover with veneer
  veneer the furniture to protect it

• It's not just the low taxes or the libertine veneer of Las Vegas; Nevada is free, I was told, in part because so much of it is populated by an unbroken and unbowed caste of .
• But the execution cracked the veneer of stability and national reconciliation under which Mobutu has lately ruled.
• The complex's wood floors and veneer were harvested from sustainable forests.

• veneering
• facing

News & Articles

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• Could today's Iran election be a 1975 turning point?
  It’s difficult to predict how Iranians will react to this election. The peeling back of even the veneer of political choice and change may be the last straw for Iranians and eventually lead to another uprising, just as the shah’s 1975 scrapping of political parties helped spur the 1979 revolution.
  June 14, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Loss of driving privileges difficult as we become older
  Life gets harder as we age. Aging is not for sissies; the golden years often hide behind a veneer of tarnish. One of the most difficult and feared events has to do with car keys. Those of us who have had to relinquish them fully understand the trauma. Growing up in New York City, driving was no issue in my early years nor was it when I arrived at college. Underclassmen and women were forbidden ...
  June 12, 2013 - U-T San Diego
• 'Dead Rising 3' brings mad, mad, mad undead world to Xbox One
  The new generation of gaming seems to be largely composed of open-world zombie adventures, but "Dead Rising 3" — the latest installment in the weird, darkly humorous zombie-smashing hit — arrested our attention because of its eye-popping graphics and gamer pedigree.Apparently grim tone, at odds with the silliness for which the franchise is known, is just a "veneer of seriousness," say its ...
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• President Bush in ABC News
  We must encourage more Muslim leaders to add their voices, to speak out against radical extremists who infiltrate mosques, to denounce organizations that use the veneer of Islamic belief to support and fund acts of violence,Bush said.
• Ben Brantley in Reuters
  A study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct, this play ...... is itself a satisfyingly primitive entertainment with an intellectual veneer,Brantley wrote.
• Scott Brennan in The Australian
  We had a few scotches after the Games and (Burgess) gave me a piece of paper and I wrote down what I wanted in four years' time,Brennan said. "You hang on to a thin veneer of control before an Olympic final but bubbling up underneath is a...