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chic

[sheek] / ʃik /


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“We wanted chic modern but also comfortable and warm,” said Attias, noting that new artworks and rugs are still arriving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The sequel is flat and digital, loaded with garish CGI and set decoration that often mistakes boho chic for cottagecore.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The living room, bathed in natural light, offers vaulted ceilings, a chic bar area, and a fireplace.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Plus, investors bet they can turn aging hotels from shabby to chic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

A moment later, I’m inside a very chic little bathroom with a porthole mirror and swing-arm bronze lanterns, just like we’re in a ship.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

It was seemingly the end when the designer, Walter Van Beirendonck — himself a large, hirsute Belgian man, a chicer version of Santa Claus — emerged to do his own walk down the runway.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019

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

The chicest thing is, you know, a black dress or a white sofa or a silver car.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024

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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