By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:11 AM
Hospitals grapple with big declines in state, federal funding
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/21/2025 12:10 AM
How NJ teachers are taught to guide students through the complex issue
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:07 AM
Women in New Jersey die after giving birth at alarming rates
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/21/2025 12:05 AM
Employers, businesses, nonprofits and impact investors can all help communities caught in a cycle of near poverty
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/18/2025 6:31 PM
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Alina Habba’s last days as U.S. Attorney? Habba’s interim U.S. Attorney role ends on Tuesday. Debating FEMA’s future as storms, floods worsen Monmouth town faces floods and now loss […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/18/2025 6:08 PM
Interview: Sarah Kaplan, climate reporter, The Washington Post
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/18/2025 6:05 PM
Habba's interim U.S. Attorney role ends on Tuesday
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Monmouth town faces floods and now loss of federal help
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Rutgers' True Grit Camp is a safe space for kids with spinal cord injuries
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Senate OKs bill to pull $9 billion Congress previously approved, House follows suit
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/18/2025 12:05 AM
Permanent tax breaks should help many, but energy and health sectors may have qualms
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Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst chosen ‘for temporary use.’ NJ congressman slams plan as ‘abhorrent’
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By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/17/2025 6:31 PM
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Washington poised to pull back funds for NJ public media Interview: Cassandra Etienne, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University Monthly allowance leaves NJ’s long-term care residents needing […]
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By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/17/2025 6:10 PM
Interview: Cassandra Etienne, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University
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Staff were able to rescue over 80 cats and dogs during Monday storm
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Lawmakers say they want to increase 'personal needs allowance' from $50 per month
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Federal rebates at risk for energy-efficient appliances
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By NJ Spotlight | Hannah Gross | 7/17/2025 12:10 AM
Trump administration places new limits on early childhood program
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/17/2025 12:08 AM
Megabill holds off cuts to Medicaid, SNAP food program until after 2026 elections
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By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/17/2025 12:05 AM
‘New Jersey’s youth deserve more than symbolic gestures and sporadic enforcement’ of the ban on sales
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"Shell art isn't a new genre; it's been with us for centuries. The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells. ... The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s when everything was embellished with shells, from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture." — Stephen Crafti, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2025
Did you know?
Embellish came to English, by way of Anglo-French, from the Latin word bellus, meaning "beautiful." It's in good company: modern language is adorned with bellus descendants. Examples include such classics as beauty, belle, and beau. And the beauty of bellus reaches beyond English: its influence is seen in the French bel, a word meaning "beautiful" that is directly related to the English embellish. And in Spanish, bellus is evidenced in the word bello, also meaning "beautiful."