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garnish

[gahr-nish] / ˈgɑr nɪʃ /




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Choose your own culinary adventure: The most advanced ordering system in the food industry is the multiple-choice menu that lets you assemble a masterpiece from every filling, topping, and garnish in existence.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Consequently, financial advisers often recommend working longer — yet the RET can garnish benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

I know only that, in the course of negotiations, they elected to deliver Pro Bono as a garnish to a gentleman donor in the Virginia Colony.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Another builds rainbow-colored bowls overflowing with blackened chicken, rice, leafy greens, fresh vegetables and other thoughtfully placed garnishes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

In the trailer released on Thursday, Meghan garnishes a cake with raspberries and harvests honey in California, where she lives with her husband Prince Harry and two children.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025

Optional garnishes: parley, sliced lemon and/or save a few whole shrimp to place on top when serving.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

Sometimes he’d stop at the store and buy various ingredients for his turtle soup, various spices and garnishes.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Each piece of clothing within the collection nods to a futuristic past garnished by pops of primary colors while signaling toward a future of “systemized intuition” where utility is the ultimate framework.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In one, it sat on a tiny plate beside a chilled vermouth cocktail garnished with a pearl onion on a spear.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Your sibling who did not pay child support could have his income garnished or federal/state taxes intercepted to pay his former/estranged spouse; inheritance may also be garnished.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026

Mom has already scooped servings of pasta and clams into four bowls, each garnished with sprinkles of parsley and squeezes of lemon.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The thought of garnishing wages from seniors on fixed incomes particularly rattles Pressley.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

That might include garnishing wages and tax refunds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The Education Department announced that it would start garnishing the wages of borrowers in default on their loans early next year.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Serve on lettuce with French dressing or Mayonnaise, garnishing with anchovies and small pickles, or in a mould of aspic.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed




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