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decorate

[dek-uh-rayt] / ˈdɛk əˌreɪt /


VERB
honor and give medal
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While the area may not have been his favorite, the Brolins certainly made the home their own, tapping celebrated interior design studio, Pierce and Ward, to decorate it with a traditional, baronial aesthetic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Signs in English, Mandarin, Spanish and Vietnamese decorate the classroom, reflecting the most common languages students speak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Why not decorate all of our college athletes like stock car drivers, covering them head to toe in logos for banks, tech companies, candies, soft drinks, sunscreens, insurers, hardware stores and ultraprocessed snacks?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

This time round each competing team was given its own baton to decorate rather than transporting one across the Commonwealth.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

He could see the pages coming from the forest, dragging the yule log and branches of holly to decorate the Hall.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

Rather, she takes a plain white bag and decorates it to the max — an “Easter basket of sorts,” as she describes the final product.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

What if Jesse decorates the house with toilet paper?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

But the epiphanic ding! hits her as she’s smoothing a Band-Aid onto her forehead wound, and considers the superhero that decorates it: the Incredible Hulk.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

Take Saskia, from Bempton Grove in Hull, who - along with her two siblings - decorates their house inside and out on 1 November each year.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

He, too, winks at me with his one working eye, and decorates the walls of his quarters with what he calls “the telltale visions of a captain triumphant.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Each is decorated with photography and art pieces from the family collection, many of which are equestrian-themed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Trucks bearing the nations' flags began moving in both directions late morning, AFP reporters at the scene said, some of the North Korean vehicles decorated with flowers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The data is there,” said Pan, speaking before a banner decorated with purple butterflies and the proclamation, “Black Mothers Matter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Archaeologists later excavated a sword still in its scabbard, decorated straps, buckles, rings, ornaments and chariot wheel axle caps.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Shere Khan, a huge tiger, had feathers decorated with stripes.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

For this kind of gathering, my decorating instincts tend toward three descriptors: Short, fat and fall-colored.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

His son, Altamash, began performing with him as a teenager but now works decorating parties with balloons.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

When I dropped my daughter off at a three-day, two-night sports camp this summer, I was stunned to see other parents—one with a ladder—elaborately decorating the front doors of their campers’ rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

We’d become preoccupied with T-shirts, with decorating around our beds, with personalising our desks.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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