buttoned-up
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“We’re challenging the buttoned-up paradigm of burying the dead. We’re keeping our dead alive through art, through talking about them always.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We traced the evolution of preppy from its buttoned-up heritage to its more modern and peppy form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Michigan Mike Rogers is a bit of a throwback to the pre-Trump GOP: a buttoned-up, country-club Republican from the George W. Bush era.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The shifting promises are unsurprising to colleagues familiar with the brash, quick-tempered Gorka, a gate crasher in Washington’s buttoned-up defense establishment.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
They look serious, with suits on or sporting sharp ties against neatly buttoned-up shirts.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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