lard

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Recent Examples of lard Internet video giant YouTube larded its coffers with $7.95 billion in ad revenue for third quarter of 2023, representing a 12.5% year-over-year increase, as parent Alphabet overall topped Wall Street forecasts. Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023 Scorsese lards the supporting cast with musicians like Jason Isbell and Jack White; by far the most impressive is Sturgill Simpson, who provides a welcome gleam of sly humor as one of Hale’s moonshining henchmen. Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023 While there are a few pieces of classic modern furniture, including chairs by Roland Rainer and Eames, the designers avoided larding the space with pricey finds. Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 15 Apr. 2023 Tamales are a staple of Christmases and birthdays, the inspiration for the farming town of Somerton’s December Tamale Festival and the subject of passionate debate: Lard or no lard? Jack Healy, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for lard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lard
Verb
  • Lawsuits challenging Trump administration cuts in grant funding by other agencies, such as the Department Health and Human Services, have made analogous arguments.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2025
  • And he’s voted this year for a budget plan that could lead to big cuts in federal school funding.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The gift further connects revelers to Carved to Flow which began in a laboratory in Athens where oils, butters, and lye from the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North and West Africa were intermingled to create a soap.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • This spray uses grapefruit, lemon and tea tree oils to remove makeup buildup and preserve your tools.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • They can also be inset should the conflict drift into a different room or nearby area.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • But a four-piece band and pair of backing singers did their part Monday, stationed within pits inset into the stage and occasionally venturing out.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The latter also perpetuates a reliance on extractive industries, keeping the metaphorical wheels greased on the fossil fuel industry rather than encouraging it to begin winding down.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The key is to bake the top layer in an ovenproof bowl greased generously with baking spray and lined with two strips of parchment paper.
    Ana Calderone, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In the meantime, party moderates are being tarred with progressive brushes, and Democratic leadership is unwilling or unable to do anything about it.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The debates, the great solutions, DeFi itself, everything gets tarred with the unsafe brush.
    Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sherrod opened the scoring with a 65-yard touchdown, weaving through the defense before breaking into the open backfield.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Grid fleece weaves in about 5 percent elastane (aka Spandex) in a grid-like pattern (hence the name).
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But years of cheese consumption had apparently led to tiny bits of cheese getting down into the mechanism and gumming it up something terrible.
    Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The maneuver eliminates vehicles stacking up in the middle of the main road at the intersection itself, which can often result in turning vehicles sitting through more than one light cycle and spilling over into the through lanes, gumming up the entire roadway.
    John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This practice, called interlining, gives passengers the ability to get to more parts of the city without transferring trains.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The French interlining company has expanded its product range beyond beyond its traditional offerings of innerlinings and inner-garment components to include cotton fabrics for the shirting sector.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Lard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lard. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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