decorate
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Why not decorate all of our college athletes like stock car drivers, covering them head to toe in logos for banks, tech companies, candies, soft drinks, sunscreens, insurers, hardware stores and ultraprocessed snacks?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
This time round each competing team was given its own baton to decorate rather than transporting one across the Commonwealth.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was probably commissioned by Bishop Odo of Bayeux -- William's half-brother -- in 1077 to decorate the new cathedral in his hometown, Bayeux, according to the tapestry's home museum.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Paint, layer and decorate it to your heart’s desire.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Plus, Anastasia just signed a new contract to decorate the home of the mayor of Indian Hills.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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Most notably, the display of military trophies that decorates the back wall was entirely Trumbull’s own embellishment, as he himself said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Rather, she takes a plain white bag and decorates it to the max — an “Easter basket of sorts,” as she describes the final product.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
“She said, ‘I love that Christmas tree’ and asked me if I knew anybody who decorates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
But the epiphanic ding! hits her as she’s smoothing a Band-Aid onto her forehead wound, and considers the superhero that decorates it: the Incredible Hulk.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
He decorates them with swirling snakes and hungry scorpions.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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A few days later, rifling through my wallet, I passed a small red-and-gold card decorated with lucky cats and a rising sun.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Delevingne sisters decorated the 1955-midcentury property together before handing the keys over to Usher.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The show also features numerous loans from private collectors and institutions, most notably a rare figural lira da braccio from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum and an exquisitely decorated hurdy-gurdy from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
One of them was El Camino Real’s decorated baseball coach, Josh Lienhard, who has guided the team to five City Section championships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Of these, 120 American nurses died in Europe, and 200 were decorated for bravery.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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When I dropped my daughter off at a three-day, two-night sports camp this summer, I was stunned to see other parents—one with a ladder—elaborately decorating the front doors of their campers’ rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The pregnancy had been far enough along to start getting their 4-year-old daughter excited about decorating a nursery, family-of-four camping trips and what it would mean to become a big sister.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Department of Veterans Affairs External link, the holiday was established to honor fallen soldiers by decorating their graves with flowers.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
In 1953, Angel’s brother Juan opened a burger-and-ice cream stand called the Snow Cap Drive-In, using recycled lumber and decorating every surface with bright colors and jokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
I frame a shot of a woman in niqab, a face covering, decorating Julies freckled arm with intricate designs of henna.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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