decoration
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These exchanges appear to have encouraged cultural growth, more complex social behavior, and innovations such as formal burials and the symbolic use of ochre for decoration.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
Trump then announced that Williams would receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
They’re an everyday kitchen staple, a decoration drying outside homes, and a tool to ward off bad spirits and illness.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026
He also received the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, South Korea's highest decoration.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
Somehow I should have expected that a room furnished as this was in such exquisite taste, for all the exaggeration of the flowers, would be a place of decoration only, languorous and intimate.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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