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"polish" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often refinement (10 letters).
Definitions
bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
Word origin
From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.
Used in a sentence
“Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.”
“As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.”
““There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“From Warsaw”6 letters
02“Make shine”6 letters
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