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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Natural Resources Wales said the Environment Agency, its predecessor, investigated the acid tar lake in 2006 and 2008 but tests concluded it did not meet the legal definition of contaminated land.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

Just ask a long-grieving widow whose husband drowned in a medicinal tar pit, or a plucky young governess who spent more than half her life wondering whether she might someday see her parents again.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

It tars everyone with the same brush, regardless of the facts.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

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

From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Not only for tarring the reputation of a beloved public figure but for breaking ranks with a tightknit community: Playboy itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

He has a summer job, with the Works Department, filling in potholes in the roads, tarring over the cracks made by frost heave; he does have a faint tarry smell about him.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood