tar
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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
Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
"I don't want to tar every business with the same brush by any means, but there is some profiteering."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
They walked out on the pier, the rough boards dark with tar and fastened down with spikes to the timbers underneath.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
Some controlled by James Dolan, including AMC Networks, have long been tarred with a “Dolan discount” for that reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
It risks being tarred with both the inflationary stickiness of the US, and the stagnant growth of the eurozone - the worst of both worlds.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
The country has few tarred roads across its vast, forested territory, and river travel is common.
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023
Everything went red for a moment and I leaned against the rough, tarred wood of the pennant pole.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
A producer of the 2014 TV show Benefits Street has said he regrets tarring the reputation of the road it focussed on.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
His opponents tried to slow him down by tarring him as an out-of-touch tycoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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