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"What we're seeing is ambient road temperatures at the height of the heat up in the 40s, and that causes the tar on the roads to melt."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

So did the tar pulls, an interactive exhibit where visitors test their strength against levers submerged in buckets of asphalt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Pike perch tartare from Lake Oulujärvi rests on malt bread with capers and dill oil and a whisper of pine tar.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

It couldn’t seem farther away from this hot tar roof and my shrink staring at my back, waiting for me to speak.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

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

At first glance, modern, prosperous South Korea looks like it’s been wrongly tarred with the same brush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

“Those two should be held accountable, but the rest of the peaceful protestors shouldn’t be tarred by the behavior of two bad actors.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Alonso might reasonably point out that other drivers make critical comments about rivals, do questionable things, and sound off on the radio, and are not tarred with the same brush.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023

For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tarred wall with its white lettering.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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

Not only for tarring the reputation of a beloved public figure but for breaking ranks with a tightknit community: Playboy itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

He has a summer job, with the Works Department, filling in potholes in the roads, tarring over the cracks made by frost heave; he does have a faint tarry smell about him.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood