adorn
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Some Iranian embassies have yet to hang portraits of him even though images of Iran’s supreme leader typically adorn most rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
The beetle, named for six gold spots that adorn its back, doesn’t fly far.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
At AC Milan's Milanello training base images of club legends adorn the walls.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Smaller versions are also produced by the city's craftsmen and adorn lamp posts, office buildings and homes across the archipelago nation of 116 million which is home to Asia's largest Catholic population.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing adorn
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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