attire
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At Future Proof’s first event in Huntington Beach, in 2022, about 1,600 people showed up, many of whom arrived in suits and other business attire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
As for her attire, it was professional, but not something I would wear.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
When he came on the stage shortly after 8pm, dressed in traditional attire, the stadium erupted and the screams barely stopped for the next two-and-a-bit hours.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Standing in a holding pen for inmates, wearing orange jail attire, Holdo looked back at Savery almost admiringly, at times bowing his head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
He eyeballed Ivan’s attire, clucked his tongue at the gentlemen in Anya’s room, but didn’t say anything.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
The people who showed up at the Harris rally came in clusters, some families and some groups of friends, all of different ages, races and attires.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2024
When the cruise company told some of them that at least 250 Newfoundlander couples were already booked, many brought their flags and traditional attires to celebrate the island's heritage on board.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
"This would be a colorful Rajasthan wedding, and both Brand and Perry would be attired in Indian wedding attires," Singh said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
Toni-Leslie James’s carnivalesque costumes provide the only touches of color, and they are limited to the attires of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010
The hero bids his martial troops appear High on their cars in all the pomp of war; Each in refulgent arms his limbs attires, All mount their chariots, combatants and squires.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
Ehis now has a master's degree in international business and says it was important to mark the occasion properly attired, even if it can be financially difficult.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mr. Barnes uses his neatly attired Englishness as camouflage for narrative experimentation and legerdemain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“We believe Cook is a hall-of-fame CEO, and he will be CEO for at least the next two years,” says the ever-colorfully attired Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
As the players raced to one another, exulting in yet another heart-stopping, nerve-shredding win, staff members sprinted onto the field after them, ensuring each star was correctly attired.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Mrs. Pontellier, attired in a handsome reception gown, remained in the drawing room the entire afternoon receiving her visitors.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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"They were seeing themselves as individuals and set themselves apart," said Wendi Ferreira of the styling duo Wendi and Nicole, who are attiring Oyelowo, Channing Tatum and Chris Pine for the Oscars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2015
Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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See, too, on women, “under pretence of religion, attiring themselves as men,” Sozomen, iii.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
She hurried in her attiring, and uttered engrossed commands.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
On the evening of Linklater's party, Pip arrived in the dormitory, as was his custom, shortly before ten, and after attiring himself in his pyjamas proceeded to his usual exercises.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
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