recherché
Example Sentences
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Elles sont si intimement liées à la vie quotidienne de certains que des équipes de volontaires réparent spontanément les oeuvres abîmées et remplacent celles qui ont disparu; d’autres programment leurs weekends et leurs vacances pour partir à leur recherche.
From New York Times
They added that AICA-USA was “moribund and loyal to the time when art criticism and writing was a niche, privileged, recherché endeavor. We insist that it does not need to be this.”
From New York Times
Scott Moncrieff’s pioneering translation of Marcel Proust’s “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu,” followed, two months later, by the death of Proust himself at age 51 on Nov. 18.
From Washington Post
The Orria chair — designed by Patrick Jouin, protoyped by the French national furniture-heritage association Atelier de Recherche et Création du Mobilier and manufactured by Alki, a company in the Basque region of France — is crafted from oak and features a black leather seat and backrest.
From New York Times
I hope The Post’s reporters and copy editors will ignore the kvetching from readers who find words such as “revanchist” and “irredentist” too arcane or recherché for their taste, as stated in the March 12 Free for All letter “We should not use language that alienates our audience.”
From Washington Post
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