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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

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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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Goerke is a wonderful actress, funny and free, who can project irony while projecting her voice.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
With an anti-Trump wave predicted for Connecticut, Democrats are projecting potentially increasing their margin to a range of 106 to 110 seats, depending on what happens in close, unpredictable races.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026

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And dangling from one side is a detachable door-knocker charm featuring the Polo Pony, a playful reference to hardware found on a Polo bag from the 1990s.

— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
Roll up long sleeves and avoid loose or dangling clothing that could contact a hot surface.

— Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of dangling

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