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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of window-dressing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of window-dressing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of window-dressing in a Sentence

  1. Allison Jaslow:

    I agree with the President's message and I'm glad that he is speaking up in this way. That doesn't make it right that they picked, you know, window dressing for their event and included Marines in it.

  2. Shen Changyu:

    China has some problems and we are stepping up efforts to fix them. But meanwhile, IP infringement is a global problem that exists in every country, every country should try to improve their business environment and fix their problems, instead of window dressing themselves.

  3. Peter Downing:

    If Justin Trudeau wants to quell Western separation sentiment he needs to declare the Trans Mountain expansion in the national interest, everything else is window dressing.

  4. Peter Hotez:

    It was just open it up and then more or less business as usual, with a little bit of window dressing, this is not an abstract number of cases. Were seeing people pile into intensive care units.

  5. Sebastien Godinot:

    Behind window-dressing rhetoric, they clearly want to sabotage the The OECD deal.

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