decoration
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“It’s a decoration, because your system has to now fight the sugar while it’s trying to digest it.”
From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026
These exchanges appear to have encouraged cultural growth, more complex social behavior, and innovations such as formal burials and the symbolic use of ochre for decoration.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
Down the steps stands an oversize candle—what otherwise would have been a cheerful decoration now an earnest memorial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
How you decorate the tree itself is also a matter of personal preference - some put on every decoration they can find, whereas for others it's a more refined exercise.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
In a kitchen chair sat Mrs. Weidenbach’s old daddy in full Civil War blue and his decoration from the Grand Army of the Republic.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing decoration
Memorial Day Words
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