garnish
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Accordingly, Judge Poland entered a default judgment into the record, which gave Midland Credit Management the right to tread on his bank account and garnish his wages.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Consequently, financial advisers often recommend working longer — yet the RET can garnish benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
I’ll then add some more as a garnish, once I’ve poured my soup into a bowl.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 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
“It’s leek and potato stew with a tarragon garnish and melted Gruyere cheese,” he admitted.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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Another builds rainbow-colored bowls overflowing with blackened chicken, rice, leafy greens, fresh vegetables and other thoughtfully placed garnishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
Use it as a pasta base, topped with crunchy garnishes and a concentrated reduction.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
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
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
The biggest consequence for defaulted borrowers is that they could have their wages, tax returns and Social Security garnished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The shindig included a three-tiered pink cake, pink cocktails garnished with meringue that looked like clouds and balloons galore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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
So when the pig was done, the spit no longer to be turned, the table garnished, everyone sat down to feast on all the savory flesh he craved.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Public-health officials that night had notified the chain that the shredded lettuce garnishing Crunchwrap Supremes, Cantina Chicken Burritos and other menu items was the suspected culprit in a rapidly expanding cyclospora outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The thought of garnishing wages from seniors on fixed incomes particularly rattles Pressley.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
If browned onions are wanted for garnishing place them, after they are boiled tender, in a pan; sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a little sugar; and put them in a hot oven to brown.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
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