tar
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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
Hancock Park Elementary Principal Ashley Parker, for instance, holds a shovel dripping with tar from the La Brea Tar Pits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"I don't want to tar every business with the same brush by any means, but there is some profiteering."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
A clawing, needy tar that pulls you down.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
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
It risks being tarred with both the inflationary stickiness of the US, and the stagnant growth of the eurozone - the worst of both worlds.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
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
The Old Grange on the west side had been knocked down, and its place taken by rows of tarred sheds.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
So what, then, does he say to criticism that he's tarring people with the same brush, or encouraging vitriol?
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024
The pieces are made primarily of white rope that the artist turned partly black by burning, tarring, painting or — in a piece that refers obliquely to noted African American performers — embellishing with sequins.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
The sub-branding keeps those irksome traits from tarring the image of the day-to-day vehicles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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