lard

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Recent Examples of lard This expensive, but frequently cheap-looking, placeholder is historical, but larded up with clunky fiction. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024 But the new season suffers from both a surfeit of ideas and a lack of vision, relegating beloved relationships to the background while larding the show with characters and story lines that fail to compel. Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024 The suit claims the documents larded the value of such prominent and personally significant holdings as his Trump Tower penthouse in New York and his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Florida, as well as golf courses, hotels, a Wall Street office building and more. Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023 Internet video giant YouTube larded its coffers with $7.95 billion in ad revenue for third quarter of 2023, representing a 12.5% year-over-year increase, as parent Alphabet overall topped Wall Street forecasts. Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for lard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lard
Verb
  • According to sources, all staff in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), with the exception of a handful of top officials and support staff, were cut in Friday's RIF.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Andrew cuts in here to show me his phone.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Once your table is ready, heat up your grill on the burner—use a small piece of fat to oil the grill, or a paper towel lightly soaked in vegetable or sesame oil.
    Irene Yoo September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Platner’s campaign has an air of John Fetterman about it and thus far has proved both well organized and well oiled.
    Liz Mair, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Main image, an Elon Musk dummy is beheaded on stage, inset, an image of Musk.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The zipper also does not span the entire top of the bag; rather, it is inset about an inch on each side, where a pair of clip-down flaps allows the bag to take on less of a tote shape and more of a boxy profile.
    Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Of course, the league’s softest schedule has, and will continue to, grease their skids straight into January.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, lightly grease a 15x10x1-inch baking pan.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.
    Max Taves, Mercury News, 11 June 2025
  • Some loyalists were tarred and feathered, scalped, or even hanged.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • Gregerson’s shows her at the peak of her signature tercets, weaving together the microscopic and the grand threads of science, art, and history into wonderfully rich sonic landscapes.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Following Black generational farmers in the American South, Seeds weaves intimate moments into a poetic tribute to legacy, land, and the enduring ties that bind family and community.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is a brilliant move given trial attorneys gum up the rate-review process and are paid handsomely for it.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Reiner, unlike many other directors traveling in this genre, has the confidence and finesse not to gum it up with gratuitous special effects.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rated to keep you warm in temps down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, this quality soft wool cashmere Aritzia coat has a slim silhouette, princess seams for shaping, and an ultra-thin vegan suede interlining for added warmth and wind protection.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This practice, called interlining, gives passengers the ability to get to more parts of the city without transferring trains.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024

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