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adorn

[uh-dawrn] / əˈdɔrn /


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It’s just another way I can adorn myself with color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The new name plaques adorn the wall of a long corridor and are displayed next to many images of prisoners dressed in striped shirts with shaved heads.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

His signature will soon adorn our paper currency — a presidential first — and his face will appear on coins.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

A video from 2015 shows how, in Ojibwe tradition, dancers provide healing through the rhythmic music created, with every step they take, by the numerous cone-shaped bells that adorn their jingle-dresses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

FlyDubai is the discount cousin to the United Arab Emirates’ prestige long-haul airline, Emirates, whose brand adorns stadiums and the jerseys of European soccer teams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Glimpses of the Doheny Mansion, clockwise from left: the music room; a stained glass sky light; a sculpture adorns a table in the Pompeian Room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

George Yount, whose name adorns Yountville, wrote of seeing 50 or 60 bears one day, and killing five or six of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Working with the Kastrati family, a large Albanian business owner whose name adorns gas stations around the country, they put together a deal to buy land on the peninsula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Simple makeup adorns her face, and her hair is flawless in its high ponytail.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

An AFP photographer on Thursday saw that the diplomatic emblem and a plaque that adorned the consulate's facade had been removed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Seguso pieces have adorned the Vatican and hundreds of museums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

On the ceiling, a base of sage green is adorned with small stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Joint lead bookrunner and stabilization agent Morgan Stanley adorned its lobbies, elevator banks and turnstiles with SpaceX logos and pictures of Mars.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The clock on the mantel is a Herr Thiessen creation, adorned with tiny books flipping through their pages as the seconds tick toward three o’clock in the morning.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

From old Hollywood's Marilyn Monroe to adorning singer Sabrina Carpenter in a pearly dress reminiscent of the 90s, Mackie's ensembles felt new and exciting – even when they recalled a bygone age.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

There are no betting odds adorning the scrolling scoreboard.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026

An attempt to impress the Chairwoman by adorning a space at the club in colonial chic backfires.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

The immense war helmet he wore had the plumes of a blackbird and the horns of a stag beetle adorning it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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