dressed up

Example Sentences

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Fans dressed up as chefs as a tribute to her nickname, “Chef Megan.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

However nicely these decisions and deciders are dressed up, the results have been absurd.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

Streeting said "dangerous misinformation dressed up as expert advice... must stop" and that parents should "only rely on trusted, evidence-based information" like the NHS Best Start in Life website.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Sweeping out everybody over a certain age is an administrative shortcut dressed up as a solution.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

It was a sort of mathematical homunculus—an idea borrowed from Pythagoras and Plato—but dressed up with fractions and denominators into a modern-sounding law.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee