shellac

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Recent Examples of shellac He was shellacked by President Calvin Coolidge (382 to 136 in the electoral college). George F. Will, Washington Post, 22 July 2024 Instead of being stiff and shellacked with hairspray, Cardi's updo was softer and slightly loose, with a few pieces pulled out for a touch of romance. Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 July 2024 In Game 4, Edmonton shellacked Florida in all phases of the game. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024 After the elections, Congressman Jim Jordan was shellacked in his quest to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker despite Trump’s high-octave support. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shellac 
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Verb
  • In October, during a talk at a conservative think tank in the Upper Midwest, Carlson waxed nostalgic about the Twin Cities.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign squares off against Mercury and passes through conjunction with Saturn.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • White, black, brown, and cream all pair well with a muted green color.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Swift wore a Gucci GG net corset in navy blue and cream that retails for $1,650, and a black leather mini skirt paired with a Polo Ralph Lauren camel hair coat and a pair of black Louis Vuitton Roxy platform boots.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • On May 8, 2023, shortly before dawn, Jordanian fighter jets bombed Ramthan’s family house.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Tim Lammers For example, the recent Warner Bros. Joker sequel—Joker: Folie à Deux—opened in theaters on October 4 but after bombing with moviegoers pivoted to PVOD 25 days later, on October 29.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • To overcome this, build self-awareness and emotional intelligence internally first.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • However, the article notes this training will likely be easier for happy chasers because dogs who are angry or fearful bee-chasers have stronger emotions to overcome.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The offer includes two buttermilk pancakes with glazed strawberries, blueberry topping and whipped topping or its combo of two eggs, hash browns and a choice of two strips of bacon or two pork sausage links.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Use it for everything from creaming butter and sugar to making creamy dips to whipping egg whites into meringues.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Using spoon, slip 1 1/2 tablespoons paste under breast skin on each side of turkey.
    Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
  • There’s the teacher who spends hours copying and pasting data between enterprise apps; the Shopify sellers who spend too much time looking up order numbers and then pasting them into customer-support emails.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Some family members choose to bury their heads in the sand and blame the victim rather than the offender.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy, an organization that provides resources to help Americans prepare for an undemocratic power grab, says his experience in activism has taught him that the solution isn’t to bury your head in the sand or jump to the worst-case scenario.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • But even the most experienced hikers have slipped, stumbled, and skinned a knee while trekking.
    Jen Ator, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2024
  • After skinning a doe, evaluate how much fat the deer had stored up.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2024

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“Shellac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shellac. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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