off-the-rack
Example Sentences
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At the start of the 1970s, before the dollar’s link to gold was severed, an ounce might have gotten you an off-the-rack seersucker at J.C.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
It’s the shift from battleships to PT boats, from handmade suits to off-the-rack ones.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 30, 2025
When we accessorize, Herd said, we’re putting a “personal spin” on an off-the-rack purchase.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2024
Due in large part to globalization and offshoring, the prices of the things we want — electronics, household appliances, off-the-rack designer clothing and so forth — have generally increased slowly, or even gone down.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024
Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
