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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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There’s no mounting panic, no erotic urgency, and no persuasive reason these two characters must sleep together before sunrise in a New Year’s Eve-like framing.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026
Trump is also under mounting pressure to end an unpopular war ahead of midterm congressional elections.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026

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SpaceX went public in June, but has since traded below its IPO price, with S&P projecting negative free cash flow through 2029 and Moody’s flagging Elon Musk’s concentrated voting power as a governance risk.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Before the weekend, Sony had initially been projecting a much less dazzling start of $195 million domestic and $465 million global that would have still put the film among the top 10 all-time debuts.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

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