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garlanding

verb

present participle of garland

as in draping

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The brand now follows the French scale and goes from 30 to 50, and product development took a classic and hands-on approach based on draping to assess how clothes sit and move on the body.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
About 12 minutes later, the array had fully extended, draping over about half of the larger but less capable legacy panel on the P4 truss.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of draping

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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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Its debt load has been mounting for years, but the COVID pandemic and an energy crisis made things worse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Advertisement The Defense Secretary has faced mounting scrutiny over his handling of the Iran war, the removal of senior military officers, and the Pentagon's relationship with Congress.

— Nik Popli, Time, 2 Nov. 2026

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The distributor is projecting an opening in the low-to-mid $20 millions for filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki‘s sequel to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2026
Leading prediction market platforms were actively projecting races on X Tuesday night.

— Davis Giangiulio,Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of projecting

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So did a woman behind them wearing a foam Statue of Liberty headband, Isabelle noticed, and a man in a Rip Curl cap, and another in tactical shades, and another with a Canon camera dangling around his neck.

— Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026
There’s something so chic and luxurious about a beat-up leather bag dangling from your shoulder.

— Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 6 Nov. 2026

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