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
It was at once a stark avant-garde curio and a communal conversation-starter about representation and reality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
As an album, “New Blue Sun” tends toward the curio — both endurance and Rorschach test.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
He examined this curio and laid it aside to save.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Yet he wasn’t tyrannical about the afterlife of these dramatic curios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 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
That charm carries forth in its mishmash of crafts, curios and vintage Walt Disney comics.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2022
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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