carpeting

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Another lounging room has zebra-print carpeting and a matching zebra-print couch.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 12, 2026

Called bonus depreciation, the tax break applies to purchases such as new carpeting or appliances for owners of rental properties, or new computer equipment or a vehicle for business owners.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

Now Britons are growing exasperated with a decorator whose tastes run to the intellectual equivalent of avocado-colored appliances and garish shag carpeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The fulcrum of a cultural transition from vibrancy to stagnation was the 1970s, an era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

But it’s too late to think about that now, already their feet are on the dusty-rose carpeting of the stairs; a heavy muted tread, pulse in the forehead.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood