as in to decorate
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
the simple country church has an aura of serene spirituality that is often missing in more embossed houses of worship
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Recent Examples of emboss
These range from the cap set with a crackled inlay echoing the tradition of Chinese ceramic art and nodding to the fragrances’ Eastern inspiration to the label made from natural fibers and embossed with botanical illustrations.
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Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
The coffee table tome, its black cover embossed with gold lettering and shrouded in shrink wrap, includes reproductions of dozens of covers and pictorials and Flynt’s crusading columns against censorship that tackled issues including gay, transgender and women’s rights decades ago.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
The waistband is a wide elastic built into the material, and the side taping is embossed with a subtle logo.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2025
And, dressing to character for his upcoming role as a Formula 1 driver, Pitt paired his T-shirt with baggy cargo pants embossed with an Aston Martin logo.
—Grace Jordan-Weinstein, People.com, 17 June 2025
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Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
The coffee table tome, its black cover embossed with gold lettering and shrouded in shrink wrap, includes reproductions of dozens of covers and pictorials and Flynt’s crusading columns against censorship that tackled issues including gay, transgender and women’s rights decades ago.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
The waistband is a wide elastic built into the material, and the side taping is embossed with a subtle logo.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2025
And, dressing to character for his upcoming role as a Formula 1 driver, Pitt paired his T-shirt with baggy cargo pants embossed with an Aston Martin logo.
—Grace Jordan-Weinstein, People.com, 17 June 2025
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Amazon Basics Fluted Ceramic Round Planter This early Prime Day deal is perfect for decorating your outdoor table with lush greenery and flowers.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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His striking work, Protest, depicts the bloodshed of Sri Lanka’s long civil war, using books that are charred or rendered illegible, often decorated with symbolic or figurative objects, like toy-soldier figurines marching across a soiled page.—
Thessaly La Force,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2025
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Both pieces of the swimsuit were adorned with crystal embellishments.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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This is an excellent, strange little book that appeared in 2011 and had a profound impact on me, and apparently on Florence Welch who adorns the cover with a generous quote.—
Hattie Williams
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
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“Emboss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emboss. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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