as in covering
to form a layer over
thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon
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Recent Examples of coating
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
The lens has a Ri-Pel coating that allows for water and sweat to bead up and slide off the surface, rather than obscuring vision.
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New Atlas,
24 June 2026
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Standing before it, Khalaf saw how the wall of the adjacent building had toppled onto the ground floor, flooding the shop with rubble and coating everything with a film of fine gray dust.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Noun
Peeling is seen in the blue coating on the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 24, 2026.
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Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
The lens has a Ri-Pel coating that allows for water and sweat to bead up and slide off the surface, rather than obscuring vision.
—
New Atlas,
24 June 2026
Verb
Thick colonies are already coating boats, piers and pipelines.
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Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Standing before it, Khalaf saw how the wall of the adjacent building had toppled onto the ground floor, flooding the shop with rubble and coating everything with a film of fine gray dust.
—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coating
Noun
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Talking about the advantages of having Greenpeace’s backing for the film, Camosy highlights the network’s wealth of archival footage and expertise.
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Throughout another tumultuous chapter in Stokes’ extraordinary career of extreme highs and lows, there was not a single bit of public backing from McCullum or England managing director Rob Key.
Verb
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Roadside assistance is included, covering towing, flat-tire service and lockout support.
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Lining and fully covering them is better still.
Noun
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The resulting sound field is large and front-facing, and precise enough to make up for the lack of rear-facing speakers.
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Classic rooms are the standard and are divided into city-facing or Bund-view rooms, with the latter being the optimal choice.
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Both Bestor and architect Tim Barber, who counts Matt Duffer and Ramin Djawadi as clients, employ Densdeck Roof Boards and Densinglas sheeting, a fiberglass-matt gypsum panel considered sustainable because of its durability and recycled content, in their work.
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That weather — sheeting rain and biting cold — hadn’t looked so ideal seven minutes in when Nordi Mukiele slipped.
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Consumers understand when a partnership is really just an affiliate arrangement or a thin promotional wrapper.
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And of course, every wrapper came with the delightfully terrible jokes.
Verb
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Flowers completely cover the needle-like foliage, carpeting the garden in vibrant pink, purple, and violet-red blooms.
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During the rainy winter and early spring months, otherworldly photos of the park make the rounds online, showing brilliant yellow, pink, and purple blooms carpeting an otherwise lunar landscape.
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Many also include birthday party packages, scout patch programs and family classes where adults cook alongside their kids.
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Management cited its recent formal launch of FedEx Life Science, which provides specialized transportation services for the health-care industry, where packages can be both time- and temperature-sensitive, as well as accelerating growth in artificial intelligence.
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Clamminess blanketing your hands.
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The crowd spilled over to Le Bar, with its cerulean fabric swirls blanketing the ceiling, a nod to the hotel’s haute couture history.
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“Coating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coating. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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