tar

“We’re buying tar from Venezuela, and we’re refining it in Houston,” he complained.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Over the next 27 years, there were 18 investigations, two remediation proposals and five treatment trials but, as of 2026, the acid tar lagoon remains.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

One sample, however, contained a different formulation made from beeswax and tar.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

Although we routinely knocked the tar out of them in football, there was no way any Big Creek student was going to beat Welch students head to head in a science fair.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Scott Beeland runs PWC Gwynedd, a website promoting safe use of sea scooters, and said irresponsible use of water vehicles by a minority "tars us all with the same brush".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2023

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

"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

Although they premiered more than 20 years apart, the television shows “Bluey” and “South Park” have been tarred with the “millennial” brush.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

Some controlled by James Dolan, including AMC Networks, have long been tarred with a “Dolan discount” for that reason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

Because Bruno’s ideas made such a splash at the time, and because he was condemned by the Church, all these ideas got tarred with the same brush.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Abbott, who represents the Stoney Stanton and Croft division, said he was "not being prejudiced" or "tarring anyone" and was stating a concern "from his residents".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

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

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