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garnish

[gahr-nish] / ˈgɑr nɪʃ /




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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

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

Private lenders, on the other hand, typically must sue you in court before they can garnish wages or seize your assets.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 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

I know only that, in the course of negotiations, they elected to deliver Pro Bono as a garnish to a gentleman donor in the Virginia Colony.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

We live in a time where dishes and drinks are engineered not simply to taste good, but to be photographed well — bright colors, dramatic garnishes, interesting silhouettes.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 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

While credit scores can suffer when borrowers are just a few months behind, entering default brings the possibility of more serious consequences, including garnished wages or Social Security payments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Those who fall into default risk having their Social Security benefits, tax refunds and wages garnished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Social Security cannot be garnished for credit-card debt, so break the cycle of paying for two households.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 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

Heylmun settled on pasta preceded by roasted-pumpkin chowder with a sprinkling of celery and onion, finished with crème fraîche and bacon-braised cranberry beans garnished with diced pumpkin, fried sage, and toasted pumpkin seeds.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Rent eats up more than half of Imeh’s take-home pay, which was slimmed after a credit-card company started garnishing part of her wages to pay off her card debts, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 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

Have everything ready before beginning to cook an omelet, as it will not bear being kept while the dish is heated, and the garnishing found.

From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald




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