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In 1986, as the 28-year-old head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Murphy came across a man in a tan suit, standing on the side of the road beside a broken-down car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The two men started talking baseball, and eventually Murphy asked the man in the tan suit what he did for a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Afram’s suit against Netflix claims that the film could have “conservatively” been “estimated to at least break even,” with revenue of at least $112.5 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
After Thursday's hearing, Peters posted a photo of himself in the black suit and black tie he wore to court, while holding his dog which he also brought to court.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
His suit was wrinkled, and he smelled sour.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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A short distance from the nursery, workers in white protective suits loaded a child-sized coffin into the back of a pickup truck.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Roy has promised to keep more Angelenos housed and protect their livelihoods through “affirmative litigation” — suits brought against slumlords and exploitative corporations under the state’s Unfair Competition Law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The suits target business-development companies—funds that raise money from wealthy individuals to lend to private companies—managed by affiliates of private-fund giants KKR, Blue Owl Capital and Ares Management, among other fund managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The home’s dissolving interior boundary suits an artist who has spent her career questioning where humans fit within the vastness of space and time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The rating agencies guys wore blue suits from J.C.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The appellation Champagne includes 319 localities to the east of Paris where the soil and climatic conditions were suited to producing the three varieties of grapes used in making the sparkling wine.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Marriage didn’t come up, and that suited us.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
He says his training was more suited to chin-ups, rather than pull-ups.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Muse Spark Open’s heavy memory demands make it “a poor fit for most hardware,” Wang said, but well suited to run on Macs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In my P.E. class I suited up but sat on the bench because I did not have the energy or strength to work out.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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Instead of suiting up for the Buckeyes, he settled for applying to be a student assistant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
We were told that Salah feels a different tactical approach this season driven by the club's transfer dealings isn't suiting him.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
Our critic explained that “While ‘superfine’ is a tailor’s term for the best wool suiting fabric, in the context of this show it is also dandiacal black vernacular for ‘stylin’ out.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
Cleared for contact Monday after wearing a non-contact jersey last week, Harris took another step toward suiting up for the season opener in São Paulo, Brazil, against the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
On the afternoon of July 18, 1966, John Young and I had gone through all this bother of suiting up and we were ready to go fly Gemini 10.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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