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 There are concerns that the bill is being larded up with red tape, or non-core progressive priorities, that will undermine the bill. Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 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
  • The healthcare provider makes a small cut in the abdomen, passes the laparoscope through, and examines the contents of the abdomen and pelvis using the attached camera.
    Joy Emeh, Health, 15 Feb. 2025
  • In a preemptive move to avoid a trade war like the ones with Canada, Mexico and China, India is weighing tariff cuts in at least a dozen sectors, from electronics to medical and surgical equipment, and chemicals, according to Reuters.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • After it was repaired and returned to the museum, in 2001, visitors complained that the painting had lost its shimmer: the restorer seemed to have covered Newman’s careful combination of magenta and sienna oils in a thick shell of acrylic house paint.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Cleaning, sharpening, and oiling metal tools preps them for their best performance and ease of use.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Businesses need to transition away from fossil fuels, increase organic coffee purchases, and shift from offsetting to insetting by investing directly in their supply chain.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Shaker cabinets inset with mauve pink grass cloth and outfitted with vintage brass swan pulls stand opposite a spacious marble vanity inspired by her mother’s.
    Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Conservatives see in such a report only a vast political machine greased with the millions that each month line the pockets of federal jobholders.
    Marquis William Childs, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Researchers at Dawn noticed that typical suds from Dawn Platinum deflated too quickly, which led to grease redepositing on large batches of dishes.
    Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The final few months of the race saw multiple Best Picture hopefuls tarred by one online controversy or another, from The Brutalist’s use of AI to Anora star Mikey Madison forgoing an intimacy coordinator.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
  • For a half-century, Republicans have tarred them as soft on crime.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Her latest feature, The Ice Tower (La Tour de glace), is no exception, weaving a twisted retro fairytale that sits somewhere between Frozen and Mulholland Drive.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Watch the video | Rare 1,600-year-old purple fabric — woven with gold threads — found in France.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Another is that ― exactly as happened here ― folks who don't like a new statute should not be allowed to gum up the enforcement of the new statute at the last second.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 15 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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