fancy
Example Sentences
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It is symbolic of your enterprising younger self, and all of those fancy cars and five-star vacations that you passed up on, perhaps using that money as a down payment on your next property instead.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
There’s a fancy name for this: solar geoengineering.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
His younger brother, who lives outside Seattle, also can’t stand stop-start, including in his 2022 Outback “with all the fancy bells and whistles and cameras.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
So the Armstrong team employed a series of tests involving fancy scales and gently tipping the capsule.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
We’re studying memoirs, which is a fancy word for a story you write about yourself.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
