fancy
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Grassy, rich olive oil; creamy salted butter — or nutty brown butter, if you’re feeling fancy — and savory pork fat are all winners in my household.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
That path is open in every town, in unglamorous industries, to people without top test scores, fancy degrees or rich parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But it’s not because the Sparks’ ownership wanted to do what Mark Davis did with the Las Vegas Aces when he was the first owner to provide fancy new digs in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
They had this fancy building we called “the Poverty Palace.”
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
He seems to borrow pride from the fancy letters in his satchel.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Their reconciliation seems to owe to their sadness about the state of the world—discontents such as the artificial-intelligence revolution and the Gaza war trouble the background—and their nostalgia for the shared fancies of childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
While acknowleding the possibility of mild investor disappointment versus the run-up in expectations, he still fancies estimates to be raised over the next few quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
One of the pre-tournament fancies behind hot favourites India, England stumbled through their group matches.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
It is said in jest, but Hill fancies the chase.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
“Elinor may have shared your fancies, but I do not,” he said.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
“If some app tries to tell you it has a fancier forecast, you roll your eyes a bit, because it all mostly comes from governments.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Premium lounges often do have direct views of competition and ongoing access to fancier food and drink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
I saw my friend talking to some other guy in a fancier uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The apartment was in a modest suburb, and the Mengele family had the wealth for something much fancier.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
If you ask me, it’s just a mall but with shinier doorknobs, marblier floors, fancier stores, and a real piano player instead of prerecorded Muzak.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Even the fanciest European supermarkets typically offered three types of milk: whole, semiskimmed and skimmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn, has said that employers believe AI skills have an edge over “the fanciest degrees.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025
Year 5 pupils in Stratus Class at Riverley Primary School in Leyton, were awarded the title for their joke submission to a UK-wide competition: "What do you call the fanciest punctuation? An a-posh-trophe".
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
Exeter, one of the fanciest towns in the county, had some evacuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
On class picture day I chose my fanciest dress with a hoop skirt.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
If she fancied a dress in the display window at the Broadway or Bullocks, it would appear in a fancy box on her bed a few days later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
If you’ve ever fancied a gondola ride through Venice’s famous canals, now might be the time—many Americans have already grasped the opportunity this summer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Add all that together, and it's easy to see why Ferrari are fancied for a potential win this year.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
“Up in one of the windows, there was a girl I fancied called Jasmine,” he explained.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Ten years ago he had lost his grip climbing a tall rennel tree to pick fruit for a girl he fancied.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Just two days earlier, I’d been on the slopes in Vermont fancying myself a paragon of wellness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
But the narrator—technologically astute and, by proxy, fancying herself a savvy reader of people—discerns the clandestine love story.
From Slate ● May 27, 2024
You start fancying it if you are Everton.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
While it’s not particularly difficult to find a film you’re fancying at any given moment, it’s not particularly easy, either.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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