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There are plenty of signs that the gild is coming off the lily of the most robust AI forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Most supermarket hams are already fully cooked, which means your job isn’t to roast so much as to gild the lily.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

“The challenge of it was to try to go to that place but not gild the lily too much,” Scott says.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

If you feel you need to gild the lily, then keep working.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

He would sing the glory of Hrothgar’s line and gild his wisdom and stir up his men to more daring deeds, for a price.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

The way O’Hara gilds this line’s delivery with a wistful sparkle feels true because we’ve seen her spin such treasure playing all kinds of would-be topliners with an amiable, delicious amount of lunacy.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

If I’ve got prosciutto on hand, it really gilds the lily, but it’s not necessary for a sublime tartine.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020

We catch glimpses whenever Lee Pace, playing the automobile entrepreneur John DeLorean, gilds his ho-hum dialogue in unexpected layers of foreboding.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

In the center of town, the hotel gilds its Native American and Spanish aesthetic with all the luxe you require.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2018

Andrea produced, for gilds and private persons, a large number of reliefs of the Madonna and Child varied with much invention, and all of extreme beauty of pose and sweetness of expression.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Before entering a heavily gilded Oval Office, Trump walked Xi along a renovated colonnade now adorned with gold-framed portraits of U.S. presidents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

At the rear of the hospital, grey coffins with gilded bas-reliefs emerged before the cameras of dozens of journalists.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Her fingers play along the gilded edge of the mirror above the bar.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The U.K. plans to conduct two programmatic gilt tenders on Tuesday for the January 2029 gilt and December 2040 gilt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Traders could demand a higher risk premium to buy the gilt, given U.K. inflation concerns due to high energy prices, and fiscal pressures, Mizuho’s Evelyne Gomez-Liechti says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The outcome of the gilt syndication is likely to set the tone for the gilt yield curve, Gomez-Liechti says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

After a sharp uptick on Tuesday, which took the yield on a 10-year bond - or gilt - to the highest level since 2008, it fell back slightly on Thursday.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

They exited the building through the great Golden Door, which arced across the light-red face of the building like a gilt rainbow.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Paramount+ has “The Madison” standout Michelle Pfeiffer and Season 2 of “Landman,” both of which could bring Emmy gilding to Taylor Sheridan’s success, plus “Dexter: Resurrection.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

He was meticulous in ordering well-made clothes, and a “chariot” with some gilding wouldn’t be too excessive, he thought.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

Not many of us had “Jeffrey Epstein” or “Ghislaine Maxwell” on our bingo cards — to mix metaphors while gilding the lily.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025

They were then sent for gilding and upholstery, before Mr Desnoues added designs and a wood finish.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

“The heat doesn’t seem to have damaged the gilding on your tongue.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss