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dress

[dres] / drɛs /






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She layers an “I’m With Stupid” T-shirt over a dress shirt and Yohji Yamamoto linen pants, then keeps adding more.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Roberts shared a glimpse into the planning of her wedding look with Vogue, who captured designer Monique Lhuillier discussing the concept of the dress.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

There was no walking down the aisle, no rings exchanged, no wedding dress, and no music.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

"From the beginning of my course, I've been thinking about what my graduation dress was going to be," says Keerthana Krishnadas.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

I paused in the stairwell to smooth my dress, my hair, my face.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Ventura resident Michelle Shock and her 8-year-old daughter, Fable, initially came to the Huntington for a tea party at the Rose Garden, and dressed for the part in light-colored, semi-formal dresses.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Residents can donate their clean, good-quality school uniform items or prom dresses that are no longer needed, and take ones they may require.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The right-wing populist is running against a comedian who dresses up in a trash can and calls himself Count Binface, ruler of the planet Sigma IX, to represent Clacton.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Only today’s would-be homesteaders look to TikTok stars like Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman for inspiration or don Gunne Sax-style prairie dresses and call the look cottagecore.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

The women wore tunics too, the length of dresses, but their hair was braided intricately and adorned with flowers and little stones I did not recognize.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

It was a bet that stocks and bonds would move in opposite directions, dressed up in a word that made it sound like a law of nature.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

That is a causal fallacy dressed up as moral clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Fans queued at New Street station to have their photo taken with the mechanical Ozzy the bull statue, which has been specially dressed up for Ozzy Day, receiving a free commemorative Polaroid.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Maduro, dressed in a beige prison uniform and wearing glasses, did not speak during his third US court appearance other than to say hello to the court as he entered.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

I crept into the empty bed fully dressed, clutching my recovered hair combs, and then tried to quell everything rising in my stomach.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2020

The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2020

The feudatory Prelates follow’d him, drest in short purple Mantles, and riding on Mules, two a breast.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Whose snowy cheekes, least joy should be exprest, The weeping pen with sable teares hath drest.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

I ha’ fine Sausages of the best, As good they are as e’er was eat, If they be finely drest.

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas

The respect that the former Ballon d'Or winner commands in a dressing room is one of his key strengths.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Finish with the homemade dressing and more parm.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Even before Sunday’s championship match between Spain and Argentina, there had been some clear winners at the World Cup that was co-hosted by the U.S., ranging from Cape Verde’s goalie to ranch salad dressing.

From MarketWatch Jul. 19, 2026

Then visiting fans turned ranch dressing into a World Cup phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“They are dressing her for the deck and putting her life preserver on.”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck




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