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as in to varnish
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as in to paint
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Located on Esplanade Park, just south of the main shopping district, the hotel leans into Gustavian design with its classical crown moldings, pastel color palette, and gilded lighting.
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Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2025
Giant gilded medallion doors led into the soaring atrium of the building, fully decked out with bronze accents.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
The featureless face on the left, gilded from the crown of the head to the midline of the nose (perhaps a nod to classical drawing), shifts deeply into abstraction and human obscurity within the natural world.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Trump redesigned the previously minimalist Oval Office, making some of the most significant changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold medallions, gold vermeil figurines, gold eagles, and gilded Rococo mirrors.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
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The coarsest grades of steel wool can strip paint or varnish and remove rust from surfaces.—
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In Pasto, a community gathers around varnishing — from old trade networks between harvesters, carpenters, and varnishers to fairs where artisans demonstrate their craft.—
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The City of Portland’s official account also weighed in, posting that while national media painted a grim picture, daily life was carrying on as usual.—
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Quinta Dos Capinhas offers tastings and wine safaris, while the family-run Quinta Do Canhoto offers picnics, tastings, and even painting classes.—
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After World War II, German companies aggressively worked to whitewash their Nazi past and rebrand themselves.—
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Critics see Trump's moves as an effort to whitewash ugly portions of American history.—
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There’s also a unique Star Cluster motif that is painted onto the passenger side of the dashboard and embroidered into the headrests and door panels.—
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From the other side of the arena, dressed in a white satin robe with his name embroidered on the back, walked Muhammad Ali.—
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In the low light, rocky walls loom, wreathed in fog from the hot water.—
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Air Traffic Control had cleared both planes, despite the airport being wreathed in fog.—
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The Mountain View Fire Protection District and Boulder County sheriff’s deputies responded when neighbors reported the fire, and the cult members extinguished the blaze by burying it with dirt.—
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Paleontological excavations at this site have previously been fruitful, according to the study, with animals ranging from mollusks to iguanian lizards to dinosaur giants like titanosaurs discovered buried in the sediment.—
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As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.—
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Northern Pacific Coast, Oregon The Oregon coast has stunning coastal scenery fringed by forests.—
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Moyes’s game plan required the forward to hold the ball up, but he was smothered so effectively by Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk from the start.—
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About 50 firefighters had been assigned to smother the blaze in hills north of Vacaville.—
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“Gild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gild. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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