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
Consequently, financial advisers often recommend working longer — yet the RET can garnish benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 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
Then I garnish it with a cut-up strawberry.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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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
Purées also excel as dips, soup foundations or flavor-forward garnishes.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
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
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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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
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
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
But the student loans caught up with her, and the government garnished her wages to repay them.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 19, 2025
Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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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
Cover thin circles of fried or toasted bread with chopped hard-boiled eggs, lay a curled anchovy in the centre of each piece and serve either hot or cold, garnishing with minced parsley or capers.
From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
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