apparel
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Other Big Ten schools signed with Nike signed during a stretch between 2015 and 2016 that became an apparel arms race around college football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Their partnership was already among the longest-running apparel deals in college athletics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
This new deal should look a bit different than the last few times that USC extended their apparel deal with Nike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The company also said it is cutting prices on household products, toys, apparel and other products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But then the Price-Rite store in Anacortes canceled its weekly quarter-page advertisement; then Lottie Opsvig’s apparel shop on Main Street, then Larsen’s Lumberyard and the Anacortes Cafe.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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It is also adding to fears among labour rights campaigners that Covid-19 is providing cover for an industry-wide suppression of workers’ voices across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
India unit and Mandhana Industries Ltd., an Indian maker of apparels with 5,000 employees in Mumbai and Bangalore, will give workers the option of taking the afternoon off.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 30, 2011
Ushered by a gate into the Johore Village, we viewed the habitations, weapons, apparels, and curiosities of that Malay tribe.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Wisthaler, Johanna S.
There is continual mention in the records of those times of offerings of embroideries and other Church apparels.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
In contrast to the usual portrayals, Barbara Flynn’s matronly Mary is as confident and imperious as her cousin, if not nearly as well appareled.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
The ladies on the foundation of this order were appareled after their own pleasure and liking.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
If she were splendidly appareled, that seemed the best and only dress for her.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
May Nuttall was a fine lady, finely appareled.
From The Man Who Knew by Wallace, Edgar
As a child, his world had been "apparelled in celestial light," but no longer.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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She came apparelled marvellously, 133 in a highly horse-powered chariot, and brought with her, as was eminently proper, her parents.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith
But the purest of sentiments and the loftiest of purposes do not constitute poetry, even when apparelled in verse.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
Wordsworth idealized newborns, who he said entered life “trailing clouds of glory” and appareling all they saw in “celestial light.”
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2013
Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
For as Apollo each eve doth devise A new appareling for western skies; So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
The day came at last, and at ten Mrs. Dillingham entered the grand drawing-room in her queenly appareling.
From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)
Jeannie's maid must have been a first-rate hand at throwing, if by that simple process she produced in a quarter of an hour that exquisite and finished piece of apparelling which appeared at half-past eight.
From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"It is time that I were attending to my own apparelling, which, in looking at thee, I quite forgot," said the widow, rising, and leaving the apartment.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
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