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garnish

[gahr-nish] / ˈgɑr nɪʃ /




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A two Michelin-starred restaurant in Seoul has been fined for using ants as a dessert garnish.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Accordingly, Judge Poland entered a default judgment into the record, which gave Midland Credit Management the right to tread on his bank account and garnish his wages.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Then drop in a few pickled cucumbers and garnish with a cilantro-onion sprinkle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

On Friday afternoon, our recipe is tarka daal—spicy lentil soup with a fried onion garnish.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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 earlier this month, 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. 12, 2025

Top with crabmeat, garnishes and the smallest swirl of olive oil.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2023

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

In 2023, a judge ordered Justice’s wages as governor be garnished to repay a loan for mining equipment; another judge ordered U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

The shindig included a three-tiered pink cake, pink cocktails garnished with meringue that looked like clouds and balloons galore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Most of the borrowers who are in default and see their wages garnished don’t actually need to go through this painful process.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

The announcement came a little more than a week after the Education Department had planned to start sending notices to defaulted borrowers warning them that their wages could be garnished.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The U.N. has also sought to block North Koreans from working overseas in the hopes of preventing North Korea from garnishing the wages of such laborers.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

Much he marvelled whence he came, and long he gazed upon the fair lady who held the rein, and was so sweetly clad in her rich new garnishing.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason




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