adorns

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Chavez’s name also adorns buildings and departments across California college campuses, especially those focused on Latino communities, Chicano studies and labor studies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Behind the graceful figure that adorns one of New York City’s cherished spaces was an artist devoted to her work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

A fig tree adorns the ceiling in the hallway and birds fly up the stairs along the walls.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

There was a visiting cardinal in the glorious tasselled hat which still adorns the notepaper of Wolsey’s College at Oxford.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White