coated

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Within days of the pool’s reopening, algae blooms coated the floor with a thick residue reminiscent of the neon green slime left behind by the Ghostbusters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

The crispy fried tofu, coated in a sweet-and-spicy sauce, is another must-order.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

They then coated the particles with long molecular chains that acted like sticky connectors and allowed them to assemble into larger, ordered structures known as nanoparticle superlattices.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

It coated the inside of my mouth with a dry, sticky paste, and the smell of feathers rose from the back of my throat into my nose.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago