dress
Example Sentences
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The documents say ICE officers are dressing in “plainclothes” in order to covertly collect “information not normally gained during formal interviews.”
From Salon
As Secretary Duffy knows, if dressing down has never been so common, dressing up has never been so easy.
Afterward, a group of children come to the dressing room, with a criticism: “In the ghetto, that’s not how it was,” says one.
Because that’s what it essentially was: a doubling down of the status quo, if tweaked with a few “populist” sentiments and dressed up something new.
Could dressing nicer get air travelers to behave better?
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