ruffle
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The garments that they could not find, such as Bessette’s wedding dress, her rehearsal dinner dress and a tan and black ruffle coat from Yamamoto, they re-created using historical images and input from the designers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Data centers serve that purpose nicely: Like all large-scale building projects, they ruffle local feathers; and their purpose, unlike an airport or a shopping center, requires explanation and so lends itself to conspiratorial Facebook posting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Yet it probably won’t be enough to ruffle feathers on Wall Street, especially with investors focused on Iran.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
He will need that composure in a high-pressure job that seemed to ruffle predecessor Scott Robertson.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Me: I exchanged it for a granny one piece with a ruffle.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Lyons had ruffled feathers by flipping an organizational chart upside down at a sales meeting and urging the sales force to challenge conventional wisdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Cheaper and faster models coming from developers in China -- particularly from DeepSeek and Moonshot -- have ruffled feathers, and raised concerns about intellectual property theft, in the US.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"This goes out to them, my family and all the girls with ruffled socks and chubby cheeks. It means the world."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Although she was dressed in a ruffled, all-white dress, they thankfully did not get married on the spot.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
“You ought to have sent word, or told me this morning, and you ought to have remembered how busy I was,” continued Meg petulantly, for even turtledoves will peck when ruffled.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Indeed, the very ethos of the museum — if you have an emotional connection to something, then it’s art — has been ruffling feathers since its focus on so-called narrative art was announced long ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Shriver has become known for ruffling feathers, but it wasn’t always so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
President Donald Trump has a way of ruffling feathers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
There are some noises — like the ruffling of popcorn or the crunch of candy bags — we just can’t avoid.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2025
“Looks like it’s going well,” Dad said, ruffling Ivy’s hair.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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