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garlanding

verb

present participle of garland

as in draping

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But simply draping garments willy-nilly anywhere isn’t your best move because wet laundry needs the right conditions to dry completely.

— Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 26 Sep. 2026
While Cameron accessorized with a draping cape, David wore a silk green scarf.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026

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From stringing her Syrn bras across the Hollywood sign to her divisive American Eagle ad, she is used to the drama.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Finally, on a Sunday night in January, Ricky Craig began stringing Christmas lights around the base of a vast, unidentifiable object—half of the storybook cottage formerly known as Pinky.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026

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An early tour of his estate, provided by the swirling camerawork of Emmanuel Lubezki, reveals a catalogue of crimes against the animal kingdom, with antlers and furs festooning every surface.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Such liquid imagery makes sense for a man who made his name as a post-everything neo-expressionist by painting images onto shattered ceramic plates and festooning his super-sized works with surfboards and antlers.

— A.D. Amorosi, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026

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These twin trends—an aging Leninist system sliding toward one-man rule and mounting political inertia in the face of anything that might trigger social unrest—have eroded China’s governance capacity.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
The euro sank to its lowest level against the dollar since May 2025 over Spain’s snap elections added to mounting fiscal and political worries across the region.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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But the insistence on projecting calm is starting to backfire.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Gerrymandering limits the size of any party’s majority, but Cook’s Erin Covey is now projecting that Democrats could flip a net of nine to 19 seats.

— Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

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Okay, maybe they won't be entirely convinced, but this ridiculous costume, with its dangling inflatable 'legs', will get you plenty of laughs and attention.

— Chris McMullen, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026
If the tables are full, perch on the edge of the fondamenta, legs dangling over the canal, and watch the locals come and go, some of them by boat.

— Mary Holland, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026

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