fancy
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You don’t need any fancy equipment to start.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
A Wayfair coupon helped me score two fancy bath mats at a steep markdown.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
She’s going out, she’s having fun, she’s young, not as fancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
You’re nothing in college football without a fancy jersey sponsor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Charley, a scholarship student at a fancy school, and she assumes she’s talking to his rich classmates.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
And drivers here seem more hostile to cyclists and pedestrians than in many other places in America—odd for a city that fancies itself green and progressive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
One of the pre-tournament fancies behind hot favourites India, England stumbled through their group matches.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Weston said that anyone who fancies "throwing themselves headfirst down a mountain" should take the opportunity.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
None could equate this engaging young man with the stereotypical aged, graybearded laboratory scientist of their fancies.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The apartment was in a modest suburb, and the Mengele family had the wealth for something much fancier.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Stretch the night in one or two directions—bigger in scope, richer in ingredients or a little fancier in presentation.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026
The bedroom is fuller, fancier now, providing a better picture of the Washingtons’ aesthetic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Sales of fancier phones mean higher average prices.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
A tent to shade lots of people in much fancier clothes than Axel or Byrd or Frank from the sweltering summer sun.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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
Doesn’t matter the fanciest place I’ve ever been to — this is the best pasta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025
Kally, a non-alcoholic wine company, teamed up to create two stand-out wines using ingredients from Single Threads Farms for two beverages that would complement even the fanciest holiday meal.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
“With a name like that you can go to all the fanciest places. The Van Rensselaers were colonial New York’s royalty.”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Holly: Former Manchester United man Alejandro Garnacho may be well fancied after arriving at Villa on loan from Chelsea this summer, but Emi Buendia may be hard to displace in midfield.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the summer of 1954, no team was more fancied than Hungary's Magical Magyars with their swashbuckling superstars Sandor Kocsis, Nandor Hidegkuti and, of course, Ferenc Puskas.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
She noticed, and maybe it was just my imagination, but I felt she sensed some of my agitation, because I fancied I saw something like concern in her eyes.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
It also has a strong connection to pigeon fancying - the art and science of breeding pigeons.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 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
In the wake of the festivities, we watched the Regimental children play, running about the pasture and fancying themselves captives in the great oven of Nebuchadnezzar.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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