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embellish

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He said he was "embellishing the account of an actual stop and search and he was doing so for comedic effect".

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But they returned to the huge and gorgeously embellished basilica above.

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So she kept making them, encouraged by the rave reviews: A chocolate cake for Escoto’s 24th birthday, airbrushed in psychedelic blue and green and embellished with gummy bears.

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He embellished much about his biography in the run-up to his election to Congress in 2022.

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These, too, are performances, and the more they embellish their fictional tales of war-torn Portland and bloodthirsty antifa marauders, the more comically visible the protesters grow.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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