tar
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Princo, as the endowment manager is known, still won’t invest in companies involved in thermal coal and tar sands, as directed by the university’s Board of Trustees.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Hancock Park Elementary Principal Ashley Parker, for instance, holds a shovel dripping with tar from the La Brea Tar Pits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"I don't want to tar every business with the same brush by any means, but there is some profiteering."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Here and there the imprint of things wrested out of the tar by scavengers.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
One wonders what those early salt- and sun-battered tars would have thought of the drink’s most recent incarnation, the milkshake IPA.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
In a 2,600-year-old embalming workshop, scientists have discovered the ingredients for making a mummy: the tars, fats, tree resins and oils ancient Egyptians used to preserve bodies and prepare them for the afterlife.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 included new regulations around color, specifically those derived from coal tars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
"If they are going to certify destruction, even just one company alone, it tars every producer with the same brush."
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2016
"Pull, gents! Be good lads! It's me own fault, not leadin' you around this bog. Me eyesight ain't what it was, is it, old tars?"
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
She feels that responsible carriers often get "tarred with the same brush" as unauthorised companies, even though she is paying out for licences, insurances and tip fees.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
He had been born into the lowest rung of minor aristocracy—his uncle was a baronet—and his family wealth came from Australia: two things that tarred him with outsider status among the class-conscious British elite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
The country has few tarred roads across its vast, forested territory, and river travel is common.
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023
Jemmy led the way through a tarred forest of wharf pilings and over a derelict river barge.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
It attempted to justify his deportation by tarring him as a gang member, an accusation that was based on comically flimsy evidence and which the government never tried to escalate to proving in court.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2025
A producer of the 2014 TV show Benefits Street has said he regrets tarring the reputation of the road it focussed on.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
American law enforcement was more interested in tarring King with whatever they could dig up than in protecting him.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
His opponents tried to slow him down by tarring him as an out-of-touch tycoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Closer to home I would notice the shirdess construction workers, the roofers, the sweating men tarring the street in front of the house.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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