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
Well, if you have federal loans, the government can garnish up to 15% of your wages.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
Then drop in a few pickled cucumbers and garnish with a cilantro-onion sprinkle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
But 92 minutes in Manchester quickly did for any such optimism, with the number of potential trophies that might garnish Salah's farewell swiftly halved.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to 65 percent of an individual’s wages for child support.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
The jar of cherries: A thoughtful souvenir, or simply a splurge for a home bartender in need of cocktail garnishes?
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
I cooked them a special candlelit dinner, complete with blackberries and cilantro sprigs as garnishes, and rice molded to the shape of an upside-down cup like I’d seen in a magazine.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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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
In 2023, a judge ordered Justice’s wages as governor be garnished to repay a loan for mining equipment; another judge ordered U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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The department had said last month that it planned to start garnishing the pay of defaulted borrowers, with notices set to start going out in early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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
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
Use hard-boiled eggs cut in halves for further garnishing.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
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