chic
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The superrich kids of today still splurge on designer clothes, fast cars, elite schools and chic parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The signage displays a chic Saarinen-drawn typeface that looks like it belongs in Star Trek.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Being bad but getting away with it anyway because it’s chic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I’m wearing a helmet that looks chic rather than orthopedic.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Glastonbury Festival’s future wasn’t exactly Bavarian chic and hushed reverence either.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
I think it’s because, with the feel-me walls, the bend-’n-sniff tubes, the claymation-like animated embroideries, it seemed like a grown-up version of the children’s “discovery” gallery, but with much chicer clothes.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
After one of the chicer funeral scenes committed to film, Marianne covers for Jean-Paul to the police, despite the fact Jean-Paul had just declared his desire to leave her for Penelope.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Next to last year’s model, this one has a sleeker and chicer vibe.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2020
Happy hour at home just got a whole lot chicer, with bar carts popping up in a variety of prices, colors and styles, including modern, minimal and industrial.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
The channel gave you the recipes for being chicer, more alternative, more you; for being gayer, blacker, more confrontational; for being cooler, basically.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
Comporta, Portugal’s chicest beach destination, is no longer a secret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“If you’re looking for the chicest way to travel, this is it,” an Atlanta-based real estate advisor gushed in an Instagram video that appears to have been filmed at the Atlanta terminal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Ahead of Saturday's awards ceremony, AFP brings you some of the chicest and craziest looks, and also the actor who brought a bit of grit to the glamour.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Carlo Capasa, president of Italy’s fashion chamber, remembered Cerruti as “a great innovator” who was also “one of Italy’s chicest men.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
All our chicest stock-jokes and pet patter they mops up, like mugs as they are, For they might cut their own chaff, eh, Charlie? not borrow it all from the bar.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
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