chic
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The sequel is flat and digital, loaded with garish CGI and set decoration that often mistakes boho chic for cottagecore.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The label said the collection sought to upend "traditional notions of chic" and rework historical silhouettes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
These days it’s Old California rustic chic, its history-drenched Condor Bar drawing visitors and locals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
In 2014, she snapped up two penthouses in the chic Tribeca neighborhood for about $20 million and combined them into a nine-bedroom, nine-bath abode with beamed ceilings, a curved staircase, and enormous windows.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
He imagined the chic young woman who had been wearing it, who had discarded it to run to safety.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I think it’s because, with the feel-me walls, the bend-’n-sniff tubes, the claymation-like animated embroideries, it seemed like a grown-up version of the children’s “discovery” gallery, but with much chicer clothes.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
Next to last year’s model, this one has a sleeker and chicer vibe.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2020
It was seemingly the end when the designer, Walter Van Beirendonck — himself a large, hirsute Belgian man, a chicer version of Santa Claus — emerged to do his own walk down the runway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Happy hour at home just got a whole lot chicer, with bar carts popping up in a variety of prices, colors and styles, including modern, minimal and industrial.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
The channel gave you the recipes for being chicer, more alternative, more you; for being gayer, blacker, more confrontational; for being cooler, basically.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
The upper floor, featuring the Moncler Grenoble line, has you fantasizing about the chicest après ski outfits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Comporta, Portugal’s chicest beach destination, is no longer a secret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ahead of Saturday's awards ceremony, AFP brings you some of the chicest and craziest looks, and also the actor who brought a bit of grit to the glamour.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The chicest thing is, you know, a black dress or a white sofa or a silver car.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024
All our chicest stock-jokes and pet patter they mops up, like mugs as they are, For they might cut their own chaff, eh, Charlie? not borrow it all from the bar.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
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