curio
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Locals shuffled through makeshift aisles bounded by curio cabinets, wardrobes and home bars styled with faux cocktails for an imaginary party.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
The new directive prohibits them from 15 sectors including mobile money transfers, tour guiding, small-scale mining, on-farm crop buying, beauty salons, curio shops and establishing radio and TV operations.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
This curio of a film could have gone deeper into what it means to be a gangster, but its core themes resonate all the same.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Discovery is certainly the operative word when exploring The Shabby French Market, a Parisian-style arcade filled with antiques, heirloom jewelry and pretty much every curio one can imagine.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn’t think we were poor.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
The album’s 11 songs were childlike curios, with Mr. Richman announcing several of the titles at the start, accompanied by a pithy, monotone explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Meanwhile, admirers, colleagues and gallery workers have sent her curios from New Mexico, Tennessee, New England and beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The retro versions may read like curios now, but tucked inside is a very modern impulse: making something generous out of what you have.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
"They are just very charismatic, very playful, very social, very curios and very intelligent and that's why people love them," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
Most of those sales were probably for the usual bric-a-brac and curios the scenarioists bought for themselves, but the tally was easily going to be the best of the summer.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing curio
"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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