garnish
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Choose your own culinary adventure: The most advanced ordering system in the food industry is the multiple-choice menu that lets you assemble a masterpiece from every filling, topping, and garnish in existence.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Consequently, financial advisers often recommend working longer — yet the RET can garnish benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
A Ramp Gibson, a riff on the martini, came with a pickled ramp garnish instead of a pickled onion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Aloe spooned out some buljol on a plate, sprinkled finely chopped shadowbeni as a garnish, and handed it to Jam.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
In the trailer released earlier this month, Meghan garnishes a cake with raspberries and harvests honey in California, where she lives with her husband Prince Harry and two children.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
The garnishes and embellishments are as significant as the flavors themselves.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
While some might throw in some raisins or currants or other garnishes or mix-ins, the best rice puddings need nothing more than rice, water, milk or cream, some sugar and lots and lots of cinnamon.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
Sometimes he’d stop at the store and buy various ingredients for his turtle soup, various spices and garnishes.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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In one, it sat on a tiny plate beside a chilled vermouth cocktail garnished with a pearl onion on a spear.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
While credit scores can suffer when borrowers are just a few months behind, entering default brings the possibility of more serious consequences, including garnished wages or Social Security payments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Most of the borrowers who are in default and see their wages garnished don’t actually need to go through this painful process.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Well, that combined with their kindness/goodness/purity of heart and garnished with my certitude that this glorious triad I somehow finagled my way into is definitely, definitely temporary.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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The Education Department announced that it would start garnishing the wages of borrowers in default on their loans early next year.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
The Education Department said Tuesday that it will resume garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default starting early next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
In Alabama, for instance, the state brought in more than $32 million in the past five fiscal years after garnishing 40 percent of prisoners’ wages.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
If the Salmi is made of partridges, use oranges instead of lemons for the juice and garnishing.
From Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. by Sulpice Baru?
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