- "Food. Curated" (a television show)
- "Curated Upgrades" (a furniture manufacturer)
- "Discover Our Carefully Curated Member Favorites" (a retailer)
Thanks to a reader for drawing my attention to 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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"Curated," in any context other than a museum or an art exhibit, e.g.
Thanks to a reader for drawing my attention to 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates.
Thanks to a reader for drawing my attention to 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates.