garlanding

present participle of garland

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Verb
  • These red carpet-worthy pieces include dramatically draping diamond necklaces, icy diamond and ruby bracelets, superb emerald and diamond jewels and celestial sapphire and diamond rings.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Simple styling tricks like tying, wrapping, or draping a scarf can transform basic pieces into more polished, creative looks.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • The duo’s latest work suggests that the apes can create new meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs — something akin to syntax, which was once thought to be a unique hallmark of human language.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • In early November, Edie Harmon, who has documented border wall activity in the Jacumba Wilderness since 2020, learned that Marines were stringing wire in an area called Skull Valley.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Her floor-skimming train shone like a thousand tiny diamonds, with champagne and silver sequins festooning every inch.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • One of the strongest examples of this new trend is French designer Llewellyn Chupin’s Ritual of Adornment collection, which offered a strong contrast between the blocky furniture silhouettes and the delicate ornamentation festooning them.
    Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There is mounting evidence to suggest GLP-1 obesity treatments also help reduce cancer risk, according to several recent studies.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • The Padres are losing far more often over the last two weeks (11 of 13 entering Monday), but Padres manager Craig Stammen pushed back against the notion that a cumulative effect of mounting injuries has contributed to the team’s swoon.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • The state, in 2024, had used previous history in projecting that the exemption would total $136 million in fiscal 2025 and $142 million in fiscal 2026.
    Marc Levy, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • Scientists have had a hard time projecting climate feedbacks, and that can add another half a degree Celsius (nearly a degree Fahrenheit) of warming on top of what’s caused by emissions.
    Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
Verb
  • Instead, its discreet entrance beckons you into a foyer alight with more than a dozen dangling glass lamps crafted by Barovier & Toso of Murano, and a sketch-like portrait of the actress Monica Vitti by the Franco-Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
  • As for accessories, Lopez wore statement dangling diamond earrings and accentuated the shimmering motif of her red carpet look with rings by Hassanzadeh.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
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“Garlanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garlanding. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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