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garlanding

verb

present participle of garland

as in draping

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Cox then walked into frame wearing a light pink bathrobe before draping her dark hair over Aniston’s head.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Pogačar would later call this the highlight of his Tour de France — better even than his five stage wins — draping himself in the Mexican flag back at his team bus.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 July 2026

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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

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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
Her floor-skimming train shone like a thousand tiny diamonds, with champagne and silver sequins festooning every inch.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026

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Pressure is mounting to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that global oil stockpiles are dwindling rapidly.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Walz initially sought a third term but withdrew from the race in January amid mounting scrutiny over his handling of fraud in state programs.

— Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2026

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On the demand side, the IEA is projecting a return to growth in the fourth quarter of this year.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
But behind the pomp and ceremony of official Washington, the meeting will reveal two wary superpowers projecting their doubts and apprehensions onto the other.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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