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Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Environmental regulator Natural Resources Wales tested Llwyneinion acid tar lagoon close to Ruabon.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Princo, as the endowment manager is known, still won’t invest in companies involved in thermal coal and tar sands, as directed by the university’s Board of Trustees.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Hancock Park Elementary Principal Ashley Parker, for instance, holds a shovel dripping with tar from the La Brea Tar Pits.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

“Sunk in tar pit,” he declared, gingerly backing out of the puddle.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Scott Beeland runs PWC Gwynedd, a website promoting safe use of sea scooters, and said irresponsible use of water vehicles by a minority "tars us all with the same brush".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2023

One wonders what those early salt- and sun-battered tars would have thought of the drink’s most recent incarnation, the milkshake IPA.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

In a 2,600-year-old embalming workshop, scientists have discovered the ingredients for making a mummy: the tars, fats, tree resins and oils ancient Egyptians used to preserve bodies and prepare them for the afterlife.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 included new regulations around color, specifically those derived from coal tars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2018

"Pull, gents! Be good lads! It's me own fault, not leadin' you around this bog. Me eyesight ain't what it was, is it, old tars?"

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

He had been born into the lowest rung of minor aristocracy—his uncle was a baronet—and his family wealth came from Australia: two things that tarred him with outsider status among the class-conscious British elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

Mr Tan said some temples avoid interacting too much with China, but are now worried about being tarred by the same brush.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

The country has few tarred roads across its vast, forested territory, and river travel is common.

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023

The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Abbott, who represents the Stoney Stanton and Croft division, said he was "not being prejudiced" or "tarring anyone" and was stating a concern "from his residents".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

It attempted to justify his deportation by tarring him as a gang member, an accusation that was based on comically flimsy evidence and which the government never tried to escalate to proving in court.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2025

American law enforcement was more interested in tarring King with whatever they could dig up than in protecting him.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

School officials have tried to reserve tarring for times when students aren’t in classrooms — like after school or over the weekends, Baxter said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2023

Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee