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“We’re buying tar from Venezuela, and we’re refining it in Houston,” he complained.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

One sample, however, contained a different formulation made from beeswax and tar.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

She initially thought she had a routine urinary infection, but within 36 hours she was in and out of consciousness and vomiting what she describes as "black tar".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

“Have you been to the La Brea tar pits?” she said, matter-of-factly.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

"If they are going to certify destruction, even just one company alone, it tars every producer with the same brush."

From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2016

"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

Although they premiered more than 20 years apart, the television shows “Bluey” and “South Park” have been tarred with the “millennial” brush.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

In suing Carroll, Trump said she tarred his reputation by maintaining in comments on CNN following the jury verdict that he had raped her.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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

So what, then, does he say to criticism that he's tarring people with the same brush, or encouraging vitriol?

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024

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

The sub-branding keeps those irksome traits from tarring the image of the day-to-day vehicles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

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

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee