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  • verb Present participle of garland.

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Examples

  • Randomized controlled trials ironically amount to "a more problematic anecdotalism," writes Healy by "garlanding" the experience of one drug responder "over the ninefold larger pool of other responders or nonresponders" with the claim it will "generalize to others given the treatment in a way that was never claimed with traditional medical case reports."

    Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania? 2008

  • Randomized controlled trials ironically amount to "a more problematic anecdotalism," writes Healy by "garlanding" the experience of one drug responder "over the ninefold larger pool of other responders or nonresponders" with the claim it will "generalize to others given the treatment in a way that was never claimed with traditional medical case reports."

    Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania? 2008

  • A reader sends along a copy of a breathless invitation that he received from Matthew Stadler, a Randy Gragg comrade in pretention and tortured artist-type gay author who puts together "presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights."

    Creep Suzette (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • A reader sends along a copy of a breathless invitation that he received from Matthew Stadler, a Randy Gragg comrade in pretention and tortured artist-type gay author who puts together "presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights."

    Jack Bog's Blog: May 2009 Archives 2009

  • As Charlotte's health degenerates, Willard grows more desperate and starts garlanding the site with sacrifices, including dogs, raccoons, deer and, finally, a lawyer.

    The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011

  • The function started with hoisting of tricolor, followed by garlanding on the statue of Netaji Subhash Chander Bose by the Minister and the members of the FFA.

    J&K Leaders pays homage to Netaji Subhash Chander Bose on his 113th birth anniversary 2010

  • The function started with hoisting of tricolor, followed by garlanding on the statue of Netaji Subhash Chander Bose by the Minister and the members of the FFA.

    J&K Leaders pays homage to Netaji Subhash Chander Bose on his 113th birth anniversary 2010

  • My favourite game and that of many was the “sarura wako kadeyadeya” in which one was given a belt and was asked to go round the group dropping hints as to who one fancied before garlanding that person with the belt, much to the delight of the participants and those watching.

    Opinion On The Witchcraft Suppression Act Christopher 2009

  • My favourite game and that of many was the “sarura wako kadeyadeya” in which one was given a belt and was asked to go round the group dropping hints as to who one fancied before garlanding that person with the belt, much to the delight of the participants and those watching.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Christopher 2009

  • You too, whatever place in the courts of the Immortals Is soon to hold you--whether an overseer of cities And warden of earth you'll be, Caesar, so that the great world Honour you as promoter of harvest and puissant lord Of the seasons, garlanding your brow with your mother's myrtle....

    C. Day Lewis, Virgil's Georgics Lemon Hound 2008

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