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as in to varnish
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as in to paint
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Recent Examples of gild
Everything was endlessly rewritten, re-recorded, tweaked, gilded and polished.
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Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
Sunlight pierced the clouds, gilding the forested shoreline and Alpine pastures in honeyed light.
—Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Whether gilded onto walls in European estates or woven through tapestries now hanging in museums, this symbol of luxury transmitted a message of nuanced taste and cultural awareness.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Don Quixote is about refusing to see the world in its actual grubby reality; to rather gild it in the beauties of our own invention.
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
Sunlight pierced the clouds, gilding the forested shoreline and Alpine pastures in honeyed light.
—Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Whether gilded onto walls in European estates or woven through tapestries now hanging in museums, this symbol of luxury transmitted a message of nuanced taste and cultural awareness.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Don Quixote is about refusing to see the world in its actual grubby reality; to rather gild it in the beauties of our own invention.
—Ed Simon
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gild
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Although pest control companies offer lethal solutions such as carpenter bee traps or chemical treatments, the best way to keep carpenter bees from bugging you is using stained, sealed, varnished or treated wood in building projects.—
Sarah Linn
April 24,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Bringing a top-tier women’s sports event to the country and having its citizens watch women compete represented an opportunity to varnish its human-rights record, which has been criticized by several organizations regarding its treatment of women.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Eight muscular feet tall, it is carved from cork and then selectively painted—a distant echo of tribal markings.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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For an all-important sit-down dinner set inside Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper Museum, a team of Italian scenic painters—led by a woman who manages backdrops for an opera in Rome—built and painted a replica on a local soundstage that was about ¾ the size of the original.—
Mara Reinstein,
Architectural Digest,
1 May 2026
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Critics accuse it of trying to whitewash the nation’s history.—
Matthew Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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This sparked criticism that the film was attempting to whitewash history by largely ignoring the controversies of Jackson's life.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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Many people waiting were dressed nicely, in sweaters embroidered with pearls and dress slacks.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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According to British Vogue, the designer is said to have created the dress as a nod to France, with national flowers and bees — the emblem of Napoleon — embroidered on the skirt.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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There’s no bad sightline in the space, from either the ground floor or upper level balcony, which looks out over a stage wreathed in pink neon and wood cutouts evoking the industrial cityscape outside.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Residents looked on in awe as atmospheric friction brought on by the blistering speed of re-entry wreathed the capsule's heat shield in glowing plasma.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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The houses, deemed radioactive, had been levelled and buried, along with the apple orchard.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Glen Powell had to face his fears about the face of Hulu’s Chad Powers as co-creator, executive producer and star, even if that face typically is literally buried under layers of prosthetics.—
Scott Huver,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2026
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Days begin at Le Plage, the freshwater pool fringed with parasols and a softly trickling waterfall, where breakfasts of eggs, local bread, warm pastries, and fresh juice appear on the long communal table.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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On the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, nestled between a turtle sanctuary and palm-fringed tourist beaches, sits one of the most consequential industrial complexes for the future of global trade.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
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Jaka Bijol could not get a handle on Joao Pedro, Ethan Ampadu and Ao Tanaka were overrun in midfield, and Tosin Adarabioyo smothered Dominic Calvert-Lewin.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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If roots are buried too deeply, they can be smothered.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Gild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gild. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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