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Early in the new film “Tár,” an eminent conductor, played by Cate Blanchett, has strewn classical LPs over her floor.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Ms. McKenzie has strewn her text with tiny photographs — precious at first, they eventually tell their own story — and she’s tacked on a long caboose of appendices, including one written in Norwegian.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2016

Editorialized Paris' daily Le Monde: "Taiz� contributes to leveling the psychological and doctrinal obstacles that history has strewn in the path of Christian unity."

From Time Magazine Archive

She has celebrated an escape into atheism, Paris and existentialism, and she has strewn a great deal of philosophical confetti over her famous non-wedding with Jean-Paul Sartre, her unembarrassable non-bridegroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lowell said: "It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not, that has strewn history with so many broken purposes, and lives left in the rough."

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett