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as in baroque
elaborately and often excessively decorated
an ornate gambling casino that is designed to look like an Italian palace
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as in rhetorical
full of fine words and fancy expressions
the ornate prose that was standard in all diplomatic correspondence in those days
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Recent Examples of ornate
Flying cows, fiddle-playing cats, and chuckling retrievers inhabit the space between ornate columns.
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
By plotting the coefficients of the polynomial as a sort of heat map, the researchers have created striking visuals — an ornate hexagonal QR code for each knot.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
There was also an ornate box turtle named Walter who might live to 40 years of age.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
With its polished English oak paneling and ornate Louis XIV-style wrought-iron balustrades presided over by a torch-wielding bronze cherub, the opulent atrium is remembered by historians as both the main thoroughfare and architectural crown jewel of the legendary liner.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
By plotting the coefficients of the polynomial as a sort of heat map, the researchers have created striking visuals — an ornate hexagonal QR code for each knot.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
There was also an ornate box turtle named Walter who might live to 40 years of age.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
With its polished English oak paneling and ornate Louis XIV-style wrought-iron balustrades presided over by a torch-wielding bronze cherub, the opulent atrium is remembered by historians as both the main thoroughfare and architectural crown jewel of the legendary liner.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ornate
Adjective
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Hear the indie rock band fill the Allstate Arena with their big, baroque sound.—
Jennifer Day,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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The more baroque elements are especially satisfying.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The unraveling of the once-cozy relationship is not just personal or rhetorical.—
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2026
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For Republican Presidents, this has mostly been rhetoric.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Australian authorities have arrested and charged the country's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, 47, with five war crime murders allegedly committed during the war in Afghanistan.—
Elaine Mallon,
FOXNews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The decorated skier suffered back-to-back injuries in the last month.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Robbie opted for a charcoal gray suit, its sharp lapels pinned with a purple and gold crab brooch.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
22 Apr. 2026
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Among them is a purple dye drawn from a sea snail found along the coast, a resource that has become increasingly difficult to gather as the species declines.—
María Teresa Hernández,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Alito’s humble, low-key approach was measured against Kennedy’s florid interrogations, a contrast that gained resonance after Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, collapsed in tears at the hearing.—
Peter S. Canellos,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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It’s been a quarter century since the mostly Canadian supergroup New Pornographers sprang from the florid imagination of Carl Newman, a pop savant with an angel’s voice and switchblade wit.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
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While the crowd left with free T-shirts, the Spurs received more extravagant clothing from Kelly Olynyk, who celebrated his 35th birthday Sunday by handing out gifts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
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What was your most extravagant impulse purchase?—
Avery Newmark,
AJC.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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These days, the emails often open with flowery, highly specific praise about the book.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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With their blissful harmonies and flowery, mystical lyrics, the Texas duo embodied soft rock, ushering in the genre at the dawn of the Seventies with a gentle nudge and a tip of Seals’ signature newsboy cap.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2026
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The bathroom was particularly fabulous, with its slim burgundy tiles, back-to-back sink situation, rounded gilded mirrors and vast waterfall shower.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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But what appeared at the time as an act of total randomness actually spoke to a wider sense of release for a 20-something who had grown tired of his gilded cage.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Ornate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornate. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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