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adorn

[uh-dawrn] / əˈdɔrn /


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At MSGM, stylist Massimo Giorgetti drew on the works of artist Mario Schifano to adorn his models with palm trees and stars.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

His signature will soon adorn our paper currency — a presidential first — and his face will appear on coins.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Nailed on to adorn bedroom walls from Buenos Aires to Barcelona and be splashed across billboards the world over.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Americans of most political stripes unabashedly fly the American flag from their homes and adorn everything from T-shirts to trucks with the red, white and blue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Not one to adorn an opinion, Jerry G. nodded.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Glimpses of the Doheny Mansion, clockwise from left: the music room; a stained glass sky light; a sculpture adorns a table in the Pompeian Room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

George Yount, whose name adorns Yountville, wrote of seeing 50 or 60 bears one day, and killing five or six of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Working with the Kastrati family, a large Albanian business owner whose name adorns gas stations around the country, they put together a deal to buy land on the peninsula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The same girl also adorns Banksy’s record-holding, $25.4 million “Love is in the Bin,” a work that was half-shredded when it first came to Sotheby’s in 2018 and was resold again three years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Simple makeup adorns her face, and her hair is flawless in its high ponytail.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Rick Johnson, who served in the Marines, has a porch adorned with flags.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

There were handheld American flags on skinny sticks, midsize ones to display on a wall and majestic formal flags adorned with silky gold fringe.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Before entering a heavily gilded Oval Office, Trump walked Xi along a renovated colonnade now adorned with gold-framed portraits of U.S. presidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Seguso pieces have adorned the Vatican and hundreds of museums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The altar was adorned with thick, fragrant clusters of flowers illuminated by the slender white stemmed candles that burned from six candelabra.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Larsen Marape and Menzie Yere were the heroes of his youth: the faces on the posters adorning his walls in Mount Hagen.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

There are no betting odds adorning the scrolling scoreboard.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026

An attempt to impress the Chairwoman by adorning a space at the club in colonial chic backfires.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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