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gilded

[gil-did] / ˈgɪl dɪd /


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Drawings and computer-generated renderings show a large, winged Lady Liberty flanked by two eagles -- all gilded -- atop a towering white arch.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

In the lavish memorial erected by his grieving widow, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert is golden, but few world leaders are permanently gilded, and certainly not before their deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

On this year’s occasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a gilded statue of the former president.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026

They jumped in en masse, swimming like birds flying through a sky gilded with fragrant bubbles, while José Arcadio floated on his back on the edge of the festivities, remembering Amaranta with his eyes open.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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