decoration
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It was a "major achievement of national cultural policy," the official said, to get the "art of Akhal-Teke horse breeding and traditions of horses' decoration" added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
“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
Rangers score more goals from the 90th minute and beyond than anybody else but some of those are just decoration.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 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
They used it as decoration to show their wealth and they used it as currency.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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