First up was the gado gado, a salad of boiled vegetables slathered in a peanut sauce.

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The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.

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And although the U.S. itself forbids export of its stealth aircraft, they are slathered in Japanese radar-absorbing coatings.

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Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio gave "big" speeches at CPAC that were slathered in news coverage and punditry.

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The corn should be seven feet (2m) high, waving above our heads, green and laden with fat heavy cobs, like the ones you eat slathered in butter.

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It's loaded with lightning and slathered in sleet.

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For what it's worth, the phone features all manner of Ferrari badging, gets slathered in the classic rosso corsa that graces an overwhelming majority of Ferrari's works of rolling art, and features preloaded Ferrari media, but that really doesn't change the fact that it's a flippin' Z8, now does it?

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The roads to Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi that played big roles in the development of the blues, have been widened and slathered with new coats of asphalt to enable them to handle traffic heading to the casinos that have proliferated like kudzu along the riverbanks.

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She had stood vigil at the window, or next to the rail in her hat and long sleeves buttoned at the wrist, the girls slathered with sunscreen.

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