And several pieces mentioned an ongoing FBI-sponsored study on police suicides at the Law Enforcement Foundation in Washington, D.C. I highlighted this, figuring that I could use updated statistics from the bureau or foundation to lend my story freshness and credibility.

Doctoral dissertations could be written on the layered meanings of "edge," the most overused marketing term of the last decade and one most often deployed to lend freshness to ideas and objects whose use-by date has clearly expired.

These plants lend cheer and freshness to gardens in the doldrums from August heat and humidity.

The news field was immeasurably broadened; news style was improved; interviews, newly introduced, lent the ease and freshness of dialogue and direct quotation.

Within pages, however, Miss Tyler's fluent narrative skills have taken command, her ability to reinvent the most ordinary of events lending the Morans' adventures an immediacy and freshness.

In cire, silk or gabardine, it lends freshness to the time-honored trench coat.

"A younger model lends the product freshness and allure," Alberto Fusco, a top Italian designer explained, noting a bit ruefully that he recently used a 13-year-old Brazilian, but didn't know her age when he hired her.

Kiddo's voice strikes notes from the bitter and ironic to the exhilarated to the lyrically sad, and it possesses an inconspicuous ease with metaphor that lends freshness and conviction to its insights.

But it is the sensibility of his hero - a black man - that lends freshness to the form itself.