burnish credentials

Frequency: 3.50.6 per million words

To improve or enhance one's qualifications or reputation.

credentialsVERB + credentials (qualities/experience)

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Examples (10)

  • The senator took a trip overseas to burnish her foreign policy credentials before the election.
  • He took on the challenging project specifically to burnish his leadership credentials.
  • Publishing in a top-tier journal is a great way to burnish your academic credentials.
  • The CEO's keynote speech was a clear attempt to burnish his credentials as an innovator.
  • She plans to get an MBA from a prestigious university to burnish her management credentials.
  • Volunteering for a well-known charity can help burnish your credentials for public service roles.
  • By winning the high-profile case, the young lawyer successfully burnished her legal credentials.
  • The firm sponsored the tech conference to burnish its credentials in the artificial intelligence sector.
  • Burnishing his environmental credentials was a top priority for the mayoral candidate.
  • Before seeking a promotion, I need to burnish my credentials with a few more successful projects.