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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Natural Resources Wales said the Environment Agency, its predecessor, investigated the acid tar lake in 2006 and 2008 but tests concluded it did not meet the legal definition of contaminated land.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

“Of course he is! He drowned in a tar pit.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

And I didn't want Gus to be tarred with any of that, so at first you don't say anything and then I thought, I have to tell his friends and I have to tell people.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

He had been born into the lowest rung of minor aristocracy—his uncle was a baronet—and his family wealth came from Australia: two things that tarred him with outsider status among the class-conscious British elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

Dingy decks were holystoned white, and the rigging was taut, tarred, and dressed in its chafing gear.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

A producer of the 2014 TV show Benefits Street has said he regrets tarring the reputation of the road it focussed on.

From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024

The sub-branding keeps those irksome traits from tarring the image of the day-to-day vehicles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

Not only for tarring the reputation of a beloved public figure but for breaking ranks with a tightknit community: Playboy itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Closer to home I would notice the shirdess construction workers, the roofers, the sweating men tarring the street in front of the house.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez