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Recent Examples of lard
This expensive, but frequently cheap-looking, placeholder is historical, but larded up with clunky fiction.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lard
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The Bengals also worked out former Cleveland Browns signal-caller Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles this offseason but was among the team's cuts in August.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates three times — a half-point cut last September, a quarter point cut in November, and a quarter-point cut in December.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But the big keyhole was plain, oiled, in use.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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Push tortilla rounds into muffin wells, oiled side down, to make little cups. 3.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Oahu residents evacuate Ewa Beach, main, right and left, to the side of Kunia Road in Kapolei, Oahu, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, and vehicles in Honolulu, inset, as locals and tourists evacuate the area.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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This will feel most immediately obvious: Netflix’s top recommendation, the homepage’s hero module, is now more prominent, with its corners rounded off in a tile instead of inset into the background.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
7 May 2025
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Meanwhile, lightly grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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With a shiny, almost mirror-like glaze, and tender ultra-moist crumb, this recipe is well worth the pain of greasing every nook and cranny of a Bundt pan to make.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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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
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Some loyalists were tarred and feathered, scalped, or even hanged.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 June 2025
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The museum also held workshops on weaving motankas (traditional Ukrainian rag dolls) and a blacksmithing festival.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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On Water Expeditions The Hooghly River weaves through the Indian state of West Bengal from the Ganges, its parent river, to the sea, through a landscape lined with mustard fields and mango orchards.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
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In the Keys’ utopian past, the top radio station in town plays hard rock next to punk next to blues next to funk and soul and glam, without any racial or social distinctions (or even record sales) gumming up the flow.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Here, a stickiness in performance also gums up the writing.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
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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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The French interlining company has expanded its product range beyond beyond its traditional offerings of innerlinings and inner-garment components to include cotton fabrics for the shirting sector.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Lard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lard. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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