suspender
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The suspender bit was an on-the-spot innovation by the choreographer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Your former editor Graydon Carter bought you a bespoke Anderson & Sheppard suit for your birthday and overruled you on your choice of belt loops vs. suspender buttons.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2019
Puns abound, with the Sun trying: "Hey big suspender."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2019
He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
West, Ryan Dean: A discovery of true Zen-like perfection, I got a leopard-spotted caveman-loincloth kind of thing that had one suspender strap that tied in a knot over the shoulder.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Presiding over the festivities was Frank Seddio, the club’s 79-year-old chairman, who was wearing suspenders and a monogrammed dress shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Bob Hoyt, who was wearing a leather chauffeur hat and yellow suspenders that look liked measuring tape, served in the Navy from 1966 to 1970.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2025
“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024
“See here,” says the man dressed in farmer’s overalls with suspenders.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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