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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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Part of the reason may be that San Diego housing officials got an early and public start on dealing with their own growing budget shortfall and expected cuts in city, state and federal funding.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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When Alexander’s dad attempted to intervene, he too was cut in the left hand by his son, according to cops.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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The setting is oiled by a drinks program that continues the marine theme, with cocktails using kelp infusions and botanicals from the Mount Nelson gardens.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Immediately oil the entire board (all six sides) and apply a food-safe beeswax cream to seal in moisture.—
Staff Author,
Martha Stewart,
31 Mar. 2026
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Will inset cabinets increase the value of your home?—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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The gourmet kitchen has inset cabinetry, beam ceilings, an expansive island, a professional six-burner dual-oven range, dual dishwashers and a custom pizza oven.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2026
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View this post on Instagram Access greases the gears of the entire apparatus by creating its own positive feedback loop, like an ouroboros of exclusivity.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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No eyeball-grabbing videos, no partisan commentary or agenda, and none of the edge or snark that greases the gears of the perpetual-political-outrage machine.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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House Bill 1095 is a good piece of legislation tarred by a bad amendment that loosens requirements for public notices.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
28 Feb. 2026
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In this way, the bro construction exploits the vaguely negative connotations attached to masculinity in order to tar something else with the same brush.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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But where limestone is crumbly and opaque, nacre’s toughness and light-bending properties come from silklike proteins that weave among the layers, holding them in place while providing enough elasticity to absorb the shock of a fracture.—
Caitlin Kennedy,
Scientific American,
25 Apr. 2026
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Never tested in orbit, NASA’s robot could, in theory, perform tasks like weaving solar power stations and antennae in space from spools of carbon fiber.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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Anything with a carburetor, anything with old rubber, primitive rubber, ethanol can leave like a varnish behind and gum up carburetors very easily.—
Kyle Cheromcha,
The Drive,
1 Apr. 2026
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Iran could escalate by calling on Yemen’s Houthis to block traffic through the Red Sea — further gumming up oil exports and international trade — and by striking other oil infrastructure in the region.—
Nicholas D. Kristof,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Surf Air already has interline partnerships with Hawaiian, Alaska, Japan Airlines, American, and United — meaning passengers connecting off those carriers can flow directly onto Surf Air's network.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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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
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“Lard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lard. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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