as in decorates
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
the simple country church has an aura of serene spirituality that is often missing in more embossed houses of worship
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An abstract profile of her decorates the annual tournament poster.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025 -
As the sun rose, the vermilion paint that decorates most Shinto shrines to ward off evil and misfortune began to shine dazzlingly.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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As for transcendence, there’s a set of scenes when one character unexpectedly adorns red while another lines of blue.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025
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The script adorns its skein of criminal dealings with idiosyncratic action, too.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Embosses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embosses. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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