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garnish

[gahr-nish] / ˈgɑr nɪʃ /




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Choose your own culinary adventure: The most advanced ordering system in the food industry is the multiple-choice menu that lets you assemble a masterpiece from every filling, topping, and garnish in existence.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2026

Private lenders, on the other hand, typically must sue you in court before they can garnish wages or seize your assets.

From MarketWatch Apr. 11, 2026

On Friday afternoon, our recipe is tarka daal—spicy lentil soup with a fried onion garnish.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

In the trailer released earlier this month, Meghan garnishes a cake with raspberries and harvests honey in California, where she lives with her husband Prince Harry and two children.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2025

The easiest way to cut down on food waste is to use everything – for stocks, for sauces, for garnishes, to pickle, you name it!

From Salon Sep. 21, 2024

The garnishes and embellishments are as significant as the flavors themselves.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2024

Sometimes he’d stop at the store and buy various ingredients for his turtle soup, various spices and garnishes.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

While credit scores can suffer when borrowers are just a few months behind, entering default brings the possibility of more serious consequences, including garnished wages or Social Security payments.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Three decades later, despite making payments and even having her wages garnished previously when she fell behind, she still owes $60,000.

From Salon Mar. 17, 2026

Your sibling who did not pay child support could have his income garnished or federal/state taxes intercepted to pay his former/estranged spouse; inheritance may also be garnished.

From MarketWatch Feb. 18, 2026

Printed on it are processed meats, cold cuts as tall as he is, reds and pinks, gray at the edges, garnished with parsley sprigs the size of shrubs.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The department had said last month that it planned to start garnishing the pay of defaulted borrowers, with notices set to start going out in early January.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

The Education Department announced that it would start garnishing the wages of borrowers in default on their loans early next year.

From MarketWatch Dec. 30, 2025

Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.

From Barron's Dec. 23, 2025

The U.N. has also sought to block North Koreans from working overseas in the hopes of preventing North Korea from garnishing the wages of such laborers.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

If browned onions are wanted for garnishing place them, after they are boiled tender, in a pan; sprinkle with salt, pepper, and a little sugar; and put them in a hot oven to brown.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary




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