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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

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

"They get huge volumes of cod liver oil, lard, salmon oil and get oily fish like sardines, mackerel and salmon."

From BBC Jan. 21, 2025

Filtered through the Stockyards haze, the light of the setting sun congealed like rancid lard on the stairs.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

All the intricacies which life offers to the will and the intellect he lards and obliterates by the timely effusion of tearful sentiment. 

From Style by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

Most of the tested products contained different plants, were larded with inert fillers, or were tainted with contaminants that could cause liver and colon damage, skin tumors, and other serious health problems.

From Science Magazine Feb. 1, 2022

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

They were likewise rejected by a state court after a judge found their pleadings largely “legally incoherent despite a heavy larding of pseudo-legal rhetoric.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

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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