coating

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After the first uncrewed test flight, Artemis I, engineers found that chunks of the heat shield's coating had cracked and broken away during a two‑stage "skip" re‑entry manoeuvre.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“She had difficulties already in her life, and there’s no sugar coating that. So we had to navigate this argument that what social-media addiction does is it preys upon the vulnerable more times than not.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

It’s a Wednesday afternoon in West Hollywood, one day after the city was blanketed in a light coating of rain.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Rather than coating plastic particles with fluorescent dye, they incorporated light-emitting components directly into the plastic's molecular structure.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

A thick coating of snow lay on the ice, and this we could drink.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell