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
  • The Yield curve flipped from strongly inverted to rapidly steepening within a week of the Fed’s first rate cut in 4 ½ years.
    George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • Three Spectrum fiber optic lines were cut in the KC area Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the company.
    Maddie Carr, Kansas City Star, 24 May 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
  • Catch up quick: The Bourbon Street hotel started greasing its poles 55 years ago to keep overeager Mardi Gras revelers from climbing up onto its balconies.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But media watchers have speculated that a settlement with Trump would grease the skids for Skydance-Paramount to close.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • Politics is transactional, though if another Republican endorsed Graham, they'd be tarred and feathered.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • That includes being tarred in an ad campaign by United for a Brighter Tomorrow, a group that has blasted him for his COVID record and past political blunders.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The latest installment, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, which hit theaters on May 23, continues the story set up in 2023's Dead Reckoning, weaving together elements from the previous seven films, for what is possibly the last Mission: Impossible movie.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 23 May 2025
  • The Shed describes The Brothers Size as a modern-day fable about two brothers in the Deep South that weaves in the rich storytelling tradition of the Yoruba people of West Africa.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 May 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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