beret
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Cannes had kept the award under wraps until the actor walked on stage for the premiere wearing a black suit and a white beret.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Accepting the game of the year award, director Guillaume Broche - wearing a red beret and striped t-shirt - said the year had been a "weird timeline" for the studio as he thanked his team.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sliwa -- once a night manager of a McDonald's restaurant in New York -- made his name with the Guardian Angels subway patrol group, which still sees him routinely sport a red beret.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
Curtis Sliwa has six cats, wears a red beret and is running to be the next mayor of New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Patrolman Mancuso appeared at the end of Pirate’s Alley wearing a beret and goatee.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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On both occasions, the now shaven-headed "Pulp Fiction" icon wore fetching French berets, a white one for his award and a black one for the premiere of his semi-autobiographical movie, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach".
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
In 2015, many of the youth clubs merged into the Defense Ministry’s Youth Army with military-style uniforms and red berets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
He waded through the crowd in a knot of security guys, several wearing the iconic red berets of Sliwa’s vigilante organization, the Guardian Angels.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
Mexican filmmaker Camila Aurora has released a short parody of “Emilia Pérez” that mocks all things French, from baguettes and berets to wine and thin mustaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Or “oeuvres,” if you’re really pretentious, like some of the kids in my art class who wear berets, like somehow their brains are so creative, they need a covering more unique than anyone else’s.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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