dresses down
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Her supervisor, played by Nicole Kidman, dresses down generals in the situation room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Wintour tells me she only brought one or two suitcases with her to London and she won’t be drawn on whether she dresses down when she’s at home in the US.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
He is quoting a scene from the World War II series “Band of Brothers” in which an officer dresses down a soldier who hid from battle.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2021
He dresses down an elderly nun for greeting him with a kiss and takes the name Pius XIII, a callback to a more traditional era in the church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
He waited until his return, and then told him to take the two rifles, the packets of ammunition, the spears, and the Dervish dresses down to the steamer.
From With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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