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garlanding

verb

present participle of garland

as in draping

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The sleeveless minidress is made in a satin lime green fabric and designed with a straight neckline, draping and knotted elements at the shoulder and hip.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
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

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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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Not merely due to sympathy for the tweens, nor from projecting some future time when the unerasable archive of this yearning might prove embarrassing.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
This is below the $11 million that the studio was projecting for director Brian Duffield’s survival thriller starring Austin Abrams as a scuba diver swallowed by a sperm whale.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026

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Think tombstones, solid skeletons, signs or other decorations that hold their shape and don’t have loose or dangling parts.

— Katie Koschalk, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
Edebiri’s dangling earrings also provided a welcome pop of color, with their wine-hue complementing her berry lipstick.

— Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

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