lard

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Recent Examples of lard The suit claims the documents larded the value of such prominent and personally significant holdings as his Trump Tower penthouse in New York and his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Florida, as well as golf courses, hotels, a Wall Street office building and more. Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023 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 See All Example Sentences for lard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lard
Verb
  • Milwaukee County is weighing cuts in support for some of its senior facilities and recreational spaces for people with disabilities.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
  • But when the program was cut in 1935, the funding gap offered reactionary Los Angeles politicians the opportunity to portray the migrants as a burden on already-strained resources.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • Rather than focusing on which oils to consume, the focal point should be a person's overall diet, says Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist and professor of medicine at Stanford University.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 8 July 2025
  • The heirloom isn’t trouble-free, Monreal says, requiring winding every month and oiling its wood once every year.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • Stock image of a man holding his painful throat, and inset, illustration of a COVID-19 mutation.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • This will feel most immediately obvious: Netflix’s top recommendation, the homepage’s hero module, is now more prominent, with its corners rounded off in a tile instead of inset into the background.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • The Israeli Air Force handled Iran's air defense system with ease, so much so that Israeli pilots established air superiority over the country and greased the skids for U.S. B-2 bombers to drop their 30,000-pound payloads on two of Iran's main nuclear facilities at Natanz and Fordow.
    Daniel R. DePetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • But language hastening Maryland Public Service Commission approval of power plants is generating concern, as well as what critics see as provisions that grease the skids for new natural gas power plants.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.
    Max Taves, Mercury News, 11 June 2025
  • WikiLeaks is often tarred with a couple of brushes that are not fair or accurate.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Gran Sasso National Park has trails that weave through medieval villages, crumbling castles, and valleys where wild horses still roam.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2025
  • These are pre-shrunk and woven from long-staple fibers for buttery softness.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • The issue came up for Senate Republicans at a conference-wide meeting Wednesday, where some were itching to lower the cap but wary of gumming things up for Johnson.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 4 June 2025
  • The Senate should give the bill a substantial rewrite and Democrats should use all procedural tools in their arsenal to gum it up while explaining its shortcomings to the public.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 May 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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