as in compilation
a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music
a garland of medieval folk songs
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Recent Examples of garland
Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
Add a faux fur skirt or garland around the tree for an elevated approach to the decade.
—Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 July 2025
The upper deck is piled high with some that are strung together like popcorn garlands drying in the sun.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 July 2025
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Noun
One of the great monuments of world culture—a temple garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed by Phidias to celebrate the glory of Athens.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
Add a faux fur skirt or garland around the tree for an elevated approach to the decade.
—Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
From the church’s dome hung garlands of flowers, lilies, roses, and chrysanthemums, which stretched all the way to the organ alcove, which was covered in climbing vines.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 July 2025
The upper deck is piled high with some that are strung together like popcorn garlands drying in the sun.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for garland
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Michael Jackson Returns to the Top 10 Jackson’s The Essential compilation rebounds into the top 10 on the Official Albums chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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To catch up the general populace on what else he’s done over the decades, a new Siffre compilation will be released next month.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The service was held at Chapel of the Chimes, where members of the Oakland Police Department Honor Guard stood posted at both ends of the coffin and a U.S. Army sergeant presented the American flag that had draped his casket to his family.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Instead, lean into timelessness and practicality with ankle-length or shorter silhouettes tailored from crepe and wool or draped from more fluid materials like silk.—
Laura Lajiness Kaupke,
Vogue,
12 Aug. 2025
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Idaho will see below-average rainfall this fall, the almanac said in its 60-day prediction.—
Kate Linderman,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Aug. 2025
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Here's what the almanacs and the NWS forecast for winter in Michigan.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Best of all, it’s strung with 20 warm LED lights that add a cozy glow across your mantel, staircase, or windowsill.—
Melanie Fincher,
Southern Living,
15 Aug. 2025
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Rather he is accused of stringing his victims along.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The actress returned to television in 2017 for the first season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud in the role of Olivia de Havilland.—
Karli Bendlin,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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This anthology series won people over because of its unique approach to detailing the story of love, of depicting romantic comedy as something slower and deeper, as a journey that is far more personal.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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December: Dubrovnik, Croatia In December, Dubrovnik is festooned with a Mitteleuropa-style Christmas in its cobbled old town.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
1 Aug. 2025
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The redeployment of this onetime convent emphasized some of its most endearing quirks, too, retaining many of the murals painted on the walls—look for one suite, with a coffered ceiling festooned with pink roses, that is believed to have been where the Mother Superior would have slept.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
28 July 2025
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The video from an officer’s dashboard camera appears to show, as she is arrested, the two officers turn her on her stomach as one pins her down to handcuff her hands behind her back.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Then the billy bedded down, pinning us behind a lone spruce tree for over an hour.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In such a setting, our local issues — affordable housing, mounting homelessness, creaking infrastructure, metastasizing inequality and sustainability challenges, among others — will get scant attention.—
Russell Hancock,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
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The episode itself mirrors the conceit, unfolding as a true oner, with the camera weaving and barreling through the set in a state of mounting, anxious momentum as Matt’s meddling escalates.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Garland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garland. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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