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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

I’ll then add some more as a garnish, once I’ve poured my soup into a bowl.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Private lenders, on the other hand, typically must sue you in court before they can garnish wages or seize your assets.

From MarketWatch Apr. 11, 2026

So he sent our Grandfather a letter winch bid him to stuff him and garnish him, far within forty days he would fetch him out of the strongest castle that he had!”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Even a perfectly seasoned patty can get lost among the toppings, garnishes, and condiments.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2025

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

That means its true identity is heightened with a masquerade of mixers, garnishes and the like.

From Los Angeles Times 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

Social Security cannot be garnished for credit-card debt, so break the cycle of paying for two households.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 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

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

Printed on it are processed meats, cold cuts as tall as he is, reds and pinks, gray at the edges, garnished with parsley sprigs the size of shrubs.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The department had said last month that it planned to start garnishing the pay of defaulted borrowers, with notices set to start going out in early January.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 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

Cover thin circles of fried or toasted bread with chopped hard-boiled eggs, lay a curled anchovy in the centre of each piece and serve either hot or cold, garnishing with minced parsley or capers.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Reed, Myrtle




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