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lard

[lahrd] / lɑrd /
NOUN
fat
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In many cases, those diets derived 60% of calories from lard, which does not accurately reflect typical human eating habits and makes it difficult to determine the effects of individual fatty acids.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026

"We just put lard on them and it takes off. I'm laughing, but it's how it is," he told AFP during a visit of the company factory.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

I couldn’t resist their stacked ensaimada, a coiled Mallorcan pastry enriched with lard, usually powdered with sugar and served for breakfast.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025

It is the job of the sports columnist to be ridiculous, to lard on sweaty superlatives and routinely declare the regrettable, but once in a while, we get it right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Father’s going to buy cornmeal, lard, bacon, and, I hope, a few eggs.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I knew Kushner as an Olympic-level social climber, and he lards his memoir with famous names, however distant the acquaintance: Bono, Billy Joel, Kim Kardashian.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

He lards on the praise for the president’s political skills.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2018

He lards this book with keen, bittersweet observations about the publishing world, details that become a big, poignant part of its appeal.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2014

It lards on production details and tosses in a lead whose delivery feels more bro than bard.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2

Colossians, ii, 9; “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” lards the lean earth.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

My college applications—each in its bulky envelope, larded with paper clips, staples and whiteout—had to be postmarked by noon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

In 1988, Icahn took TWA private, in a deal that brought him more than $400 million in profit but left the airline larded with $540 million in new debt, bringing its total to $4 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Until the “useless” headline sparked outrage, nobody at MSN seemed to realize that their news page was larded with gobbledygook.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023

Newmaster gained widespread media attention after a 2013 paper in which he and colleagues in BMC Medicine said major suppliers of nutritional supplements sold products improperly larded with fillers and sometimes tainted with toxic contaminants.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2023

And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

And larding it with grievances, à la Mr. David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The safety board completed its investigation without saying what caused the hard larding.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

The Times, ever devoted to its vision of L.A.’s plummy future, wrote pages and pages about real estate, larding its stories with words like “stately mansion” and “palatial dwelling.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

He spoke more often and more colorfully than any of his colleagues at the Federal Reserve, larding his speeches with quotes, anecdotes and metaphors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2015

And so I gave my approval to his first run for office, larding it with a bit of wifely caution.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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