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
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, faces former Rep. Mike Rogers, whom my colleague Jim Newell describes as “a buttoned-up, country-club Republican from the George W. Bush era.”
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Not Built in a Day” will not be to everyone’s taste, but it is meant to reach an audience that might decline to read a more buttoned-up account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
I’ve walked around the campuses nearby, seen all the buttoned-up students with their books and their satchels and their studious expressions.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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