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
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Verb
  • In the interim, anxiety has spread among students and faculty members on visas or green cards, along with those in the lab sciences impacted by cuts in research funding, according to Thaddeus.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
  • Here’s a breakdown of those cuts in the current form of the bill: Making Trump tax cuts permanent: Because this is an extension of cuts in place since 2017, the average taxpayer would largely not see a change, unless the cuts were not renewed.
    Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • The light non-foaming cream is enriched with shea butter, plus monoi, avocado, and tamanu oils to nourish the strands while removing scalp buildup.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 22 May 2025
  • For example, the healing properties of the body oils in their first Desert Muse Collection are at the foundation of the brand.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • They can also be inset should the conflict drift into a different room or nearby area.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • And history verifies that a squeaky wheel gets greased.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
  • Each element is connected by strong metal hinges that can be easily greased to keep movement seamless.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • And to ensure that the many players with question marks over their future are not tarred with the ‘not real ones’ brush, consider the uncertainty over the goalkeeper situation, which is a complicated web of issues.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Politics is transactional, though if another Republican endorsed Graham, they'd be tarred and feathered.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Stone cut and wove plastic mats, industrial carpeting, and everyday fabrics into strange yet hypnotic composites for the floors and walls.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025
  • In weaving together these stories, Cuffy explores the varying shapes that grief, belief, and belonging can take.—Erin McMullen Buy Now: O Sinners!
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • Beyond terminating studies, federal officials have gummed up the grant-making process by slow-walking payments, delaying grant review meetings and scaling back new grant awards.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 4 May 2025
  • Other Republican senators have scrambled to find out whether Trump’s federal hiring moratorium would impact air traffic controllers, which could gum up travel around the country.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 23 Jan. 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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