John Ridley

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

American Director

James Hansen

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

American Scientist

Stacey Abrams

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

American Politician

William McDonough

I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together.

American Designer

Theaster Gates

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

American Artist

Norman Schwarzkopf

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

American General

Andrew Lo

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

Economist

Mika

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

British Musician

Andrew Nikiforuk

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

Canadian Journalist

Jeff Goodell

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

American Author

The word 'tar' can be used metaphorically to suggest something negative or unwanted is hard to remove.

Not Always Literal

'Tar' often carries a negative tone, implying messiness or damage.

Negative Connotation

In modern times, 'tar' is commonly associated with road construction and maintenance.

Industrial Use

'Tar' referring to sailors is dated and has a strong naval tradition originating from their work with tarred ropes.

Colloquial History

Using 'tar' for a sailor is informal and best suited for historical or colloquial contexts.

Informal

To 'tar' something usually refers to a purposeful activity, often related to construction or repair.

Specific Activity

'Tarring' something can imply adding a protective or sealing layer against elements.

Protective Layer

To 'tar' someone in criticism is figurative, meaning to associate them closely with a fault or flaw.

Figurative Expression

'To tar' someone often suggests an overly harsh or unjust judgment.

Harsh Judgment

 all kinds of stuff, because uncontrolled chemical reactions produce a diverse mixture of organic compounds. Think of it like a primordial ooze, okay? And it's a pool that's too difficult to fully characterize, even by modern methods, and the product looks brown, like this tar here on the left. A pure compound

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 looking at is in fact a crocodile but I cannot help but see that every time I witness one of these crossings that's what's going through my head the entire time log crocodile log crocodile oh now apparently tough how funny is that tar is on the same page and I'm so sad that

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 when your husband comes home drunk and you wanna tan his hide. Want to kill that cyclist on the way to work, and string up your cousin 'cause she's such a jerk. Oh, dear. And as for outsiders, white, black or brown, tar and feather them, and whip them out of town.

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 And by elevating the material and my dad's skill, could we start to think about tar just like clay, in a new way, shaping it differently, helping us to imagine what was possible? After clay, I was then kind of turned on to lots of different kinds of materials,

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 times that of an unfiltered cigarette the tar attacks the small hair like cilia to protect the lungs and paralyzes or destroys them this allows the tar to penetrate leading to a greater risk of chronic bronchitis

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 subsidize fossil mewls by four hundred to five hundred billion dollars per year worldwide thus encouraging extraction of every fossil fuel mountaintop removal long wall mining fracking tar sands tar shale deep

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 can help to preserve its original form and texture. Among many methods, this group includes organisms that have been frozen, preserved in tar pits, and mummified. One special case involves trapping organisms,

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 and replacing it with the most high greenhouse-gas emission oil in the future. The world does not need any more tar mines. The world does not need any more pipelines to wed our addiction to fossil fuels.

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 per year worldwide, thus encouraging extraction of every fossil fuel -- mountaintop removal, longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.

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 eventually the male wasps tar of the orchids enticements

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