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
Researchers tracked lawsuits in eight states where collectors use the courts to garnish wages and recover medical, credit card, utility and other debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
Good writers often use very long sentences, and they garnish them with words that are, strictly speaking, needless.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
In the trailer released on Thursday, 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. 2, 2025
Optional garnishes: parley, sliced lemon and/or save a few whole shrimp to place on top when serving.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
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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Each piece of clothing within the collection nods to a futuristic past garnished by pops of primary colors while signaling toward a future of “systemized intuition” where utility is the ultimate framework.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Social Security cannot be garnished for credit-card debt, so break the cycle of paying for two households.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 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
Three decades later, despite making payments and even having her wages garnished previously when she fell behind, she still owes $60,000.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Next will come cream of asparagus soup topped with blue cheese crumbles, then sauteed chicken in a mushroom-raisin-wine sauce garnished with curlicues of carrot and sprigs of fresh cilantro.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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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
The U.N. has also sought to block North Koreans from working overseas in the hopes of preventing North Korea from garnishing the wages of such laborers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
I tell you, Dad, that the sweeping and garnishing isn't sufficient.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
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