lard

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Recent Examples of lard 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 Scorsese lards the supporting cast with musicians like Jason Isbell and Jack White; by far the most impressive is Sturgill Simpson, who provides a welcome gleam of sly humor as one of Hale’s moonshining henchmen. Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023 While there are a few pieces of classic modern furniture, including chairs by Roland Rainer and Eames, the designers avoided larding the space with pricey finds. Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 15 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for lard
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Verb
  • Milwaukee County is weighing cuts in support for some of its senior facilities and recreational spaces for people with disabilities.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
  • But when the program was cut in 1935, the funding gap offered reactionary Los Angeles politicians the opportunity to portray the migrants as a burden on already-strained resources.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2025
Verb
  • Rather than focusing on which oils to consume, the focal point should be a person's overall diet, says Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist and professor of medicine at Stanford University.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 8 July 2025
  • The heirloom isn’t trouble-free, Monreal says, requiring winding every month and oiling its wood once every year.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Stock image of a man holding his painful throat, and inset, illustration of a COVID-19 mutation.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Lightly grease a 9-by-13-inch rimmed sheet pan and line the bottom and sides with parchment paper.
    Cathy Thomas, Mercury News, 8 July 2025
  • But the new involvement by the president greased the skids for both camps to ultimately get on board.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 22 May 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
  • WikiLeaks is often tarred with a couple of brushes that are not fair or accurate.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Gran Sasso National Park has trails that weave through medieval villages, crumbling castles, and valleys where wild horses still roam.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2025
  • The new agreement aims to lift these trials out of the margins and weave them more fully into the fabric of government.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • Lean harder on the accelerator, Just a little further, just a little Faster, through the hellgate to the highway, With all its molten rubber and melting Asphalt sinking sharp and gumming the lungs.
    Rowan Ricardo Phillips, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • The issue came up for Senate Republicans at a conference-wide meeting Wednesday, where some were itching to lower the cap but wary of gumming things up for Johnson.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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 6 Aug. 2025.

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