as in covering
to form a layer over
thicken the sauce until it will coat the back of a spoon
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Recent Examples of coating
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
26 June 2026
Crappies, walleyes, and panfish are usually fried, and that’s partially because their thinner, more delicate fillets benefit from a batter coating holding them together during the cooking process.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 June 2026
Thick colonies are already coating boats, piers and pipelines.
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Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Noun
When the nonstick coating wears out, food sticks more, and cleaning up gets harder.
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Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
26 June 2026
Crappies, walleyes, and panfish are usually fried, and that’s partially because their thinner, more delicate fillets benefit from a batter coating holding them together during the cooking process.
—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
Verb
Your glass tabletops, windows, and mirrors may look worse after cleaning them thanks to the dull film coating their surface.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 June 2026
Thick colonies are already coating boats, piers and pipelines.
—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coating
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The trend has grown large enough to attract backing from Saregama, one of India’s oldest music labels.
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Perhaps the most striking thing about this savage beatdown is its sweetly melodic backing track.
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Robbie Ray threw six efficient innings after regrouping from a fall while covering first base, Willy Adames hit a two-run double as part of a four-run opening frame and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Saturday night.
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Maybe Bill Plaschke would be aware of that, and give due credit, if his hometown major newspaper bothered to have a dedicated correspondent covering one of the city’s NBA teams.
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Blue Square may be the most public-facing of these monitoring efforts, and, with Kraft’s money and platform, the best known, thanks to its Super Bowl ads and its association with America’s most popular sport.
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The problem was our infrastructure is entirely internal-facing, and building an external environment from scratch takes time, money and people.
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Both Bestor and architect Tim Barber, who counts Matt Duffer and Ramin Djawadi as clients, employ Densdeck Roof Boards and Densinglas sheeting, a fiberglass-matt gypsum panel considered sustainable because of its durability and recycled content, in their work.
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That weather — sheeting rain and biting cold — hadn’t looked so ideal seven minutes in when Nordi Mukiele slipped.
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Stateside, chefs decided to add egg (hence the name) to the batter for the roll wrapper, which creates a thicker shell.
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Consumers understand when a partnership is really just an affiliate arrangement or a thin promotional wrapper.
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Flowers completely cover the needle-like foliage, carpeting the garden in vibrant pink, purple, and violet-red blooms.
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During the rainy winter and early spring months, otherworldly photos of the park make the rounds online, showing brilliant yellow, pink, and purple blooms carpeting an otherwise lunar landscape.
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While the streaming service recently eliminated its free trial directly through the site, customers who sign up for one of DirecTV’s Signature packages will get three months of Paramount+ Premium included at no cost.
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Included in the Distributed Digital Systems (DDiS) program package, the control system supervises and manages installations in the fields of energy, propulsion, diving safety and auxiliary systems.
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Also, science reporter Denise Chow talks about the extreme heat blanketing the nation just in time for its 250th birthday.
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That’s because of a heat dome that is blanketing the region, sending the temperature and humidity soaring.
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“Coating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coating. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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