adorn

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Awards for outstanding cuisine adorn Rozafa's shelves and pictures of famous diners, including Priscilla Presley and Boris Johnson, line its walls.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

For example Queen Anne, a style, can adorn a worker’s cottage, a type.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

And I feel like it’s a trap a lot of actors fall into, is thinking they’re not enough and you have to adorn a performance to be really seen or heard or impress.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Smaller versions are also produced by the city's craftsmen and adorn lamp posts, office buildings and homes across the archipelago nation of 116 million which is home to Asia's largest Catholic population.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

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