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lade

[layd] / leɪd /




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It also isn’t filled with the kind of bloatware that manufacturers usually lade cheap phones with in a desperate bid to offset the cost and increase the profit margin.

From The Verge ● May 7, 2019

After that, still another three to six months generally pass before price increases start to lade.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Tail like our choc- lade, sharp beak, mos’ white on ’is body.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Gold and pearls my vessel lade, Silk and cloth the cargo be, All the sails are of brocade Coming from beyond the sea; And the helm of finest gold, Made a wonder to behold.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

And although the governor made all possible efforts to constrain the citizens to lade the two ships, he could not succeed in this, which now causes them to feel their loss still more keenly.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

Had Franklin seen this day He had not slept his last long lonely sleep Where the chill ice-pack lades the frozen deep.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various

As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes winged their way wi' pleasure.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

As bees flee hame wi’ lades o’ treasure, The minutes wing’d their way wi’ pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Diaz—drops anchor a short mile out in a half-protected roadstead, and discharges what she has to discharge, or lades what she has to lade, by boats.

From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It led on to fastidious embroideries and jacquards on loose coats in speckled mint and sand with often-oversize or upturned collars, laded with an air of the 80s.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

But adding Kovalchuk, the high-scoring forward, laded a problem onto the Devils.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2010

And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton

Then they left their old home; and the one bought a ship, laded it with all sorts of merchandize, for a trading voyage.

From Polish Fairy Tales by A. J. Glinski

The water stands in the settling tub for a day, and becomes clear at top; when it is carefully laded out of the tub, leaving at the bottom a white sediment, which is the starch.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

But continued dry weather this week pushed water levels at Kaub on the Rhine -- a reference point for vessels -- even further downwards and made the area unpassable for laden cargo vessels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It is topped with symbols of the Holy Trinity and laden with doves representing mankind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Another 1st or 2nd Century BC vessel was found north-west of Rome in 2023, again laden with hundreds of amphorae.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

In the lo‘i the leaves of the taro shimmer a deep emerald. The ‘ōhi‘a trees are filled with exploding red blossoms, and the ‘ōhelo bushes are laden with juicy berries.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The data seen by Reuters is based on shipping and customs documents like bill of lading and shipping bills and collected from several customs departments, government bodies and other partners.

From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023

Her father once showed her a bill of lading for some fabric shipped to Jamaica to make lingerie for U.S. stores.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022

Search warrants executed last month on Pricop’s vehicle and residence turned up logbooks, bills of lading, shipping receipts and other records coinciding with locations where the fires occurred, the affidavit said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

The band started tentatively, lading the show’s first half with late career singles that felt much like conventional rock songs — “The Only Hope for Me Is You,” “Boy Division.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

They made ready, packing their bags and lading their ponies.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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