shellac
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More important, she had recorded exclusively for the early Paramount label, notorious for its poor recording quality and worse shellac pressings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Human societies have used plastics that occur naturally in the environment for hundreds of years, in the form of rubber, horn and shellac.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
Instead, “People getting ready to do things” is spelled out in egg yolk, besmirching the virginal purity of its white satin support; and “It’s only vanishing cream” is translucent shellac disappearing against deathly black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
“Your son has shellac in his veins,” referring to the brittle material used in 78 r.p.m. records.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Outside’s been dunked in a bucket of shiny clear shellac.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Ms. Zacarías shellacs a thin veneer of seriousness on the play by having the actors intone into microphones various statistics vaguely pertaining to the plotline.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2015
Sculptor Fingesten works chiefly in concrete and stucco, gets his variety of texture and color by mixing pigments into the wet cement or plaster, coating some figures with beeswax, finishing others with shellacs and acids.
From Time Magazine Archive
He runs three miles, showers, shellacs his white-gray hair and hops into the back of a black government sedan that waits outside his home in suburban Virginia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's ice, usually, lots of it, that shellacs the sidewalks and windshields that then need to be scraped.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Retail outposts, brick-and-mortar food joints, and text-based media have not been thriving sectors for a while now, but they’ve been especially shellacked in the weird post-pandemic economy.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Her best friend, Max, who was unofficially adopted by Suzanna’s parents and is shellacked in cynicism as played by the excellent Alden Ehrenreich, exhorts her to pull herself together and face her “big girl problems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
That afternoon in 2025, with his shellacked coif flapping against his bronzed forehead in the wind, the president held up hastily-assembled poster boards bearing the names of the world’s countries and territories.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Three months ago, the Scots were shellacked 3-0 at home by Greece, halting any sort of momentum built from three wins on the spin.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
But he might as well have been circling Pinkus’s house again — the scenery seemed protected from him, shellacked.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Even Curaçao, the smallest country ever to play in the World Cup, bounced back from a 7-1 shellacking at the hands of Germany to secure its first ever point with a draw against Ecuador.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The Lakers lost by almost 30 points per game in their four-game series against the Thunder during the regular season, and one of the games was a 43-point shellacking.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
The shellacking that big bank stocks have taken as of late could be an ominous sign about what’s next for the economy.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
That’s because Darnold was standing on the other side of the field, wearing a No. 14 Seahawks jersey and a broad grin, as Seattle unleashed a comprehensive shellacking of his former team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
She had to lay down various layers, like shellacking a Stradivarius.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
