swag
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The millennials’ Williamsburg was not perfect, but at least it was special, and in this era of tech bros sitting at the helm of the neighborhood, it risks losing all swag entirely.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Does your relationship have a swag gap, and is that always a bad thing?
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Nixonmaxxing” swag and TikTok videos have helped trigger a rethinking of the former president’s legacy among some conservatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Not a disease, just like a thing, man. It’s hard to explain. Like, she’s just so cool. She got like a thing, like a swag about her.”
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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The garden sits at the top of a steep rockery with stairs leading to an entry arbor swagged with the sweetly fragrant pink blooms of that original ‘New Dawn’.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Chapman wore Nike Air Force 1s and a zip-up Jordan brand jacket, prompting LeGrand to say, “Look at you, all swagged out!”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
The blue-appointed restaurant at the May Company’s grand Wilshire Boulevard store was swagged in velvet curtains and lighted with enormous Italian chandeliers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
A renewed appreciation for antiques was unleashed in the 1980s, when Washington took the lead in an “English country” decorating frenzy of carved mahogany secretaries, swagged chintz draperies, gently frayed Oriental rugs and dog paintings.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2017
The depot was swagged in red, white, and blue bunting.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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But photos in the new 60th anniversary edition of “The White House: An Historic Guide” reveal that there was a whole lot of swagging, fringing and gilding going on upstairs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
I don’t think I ever really care to watch Homeland again, even if Carrie is swagging around Istanbul.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2013
In return, Dakine is swagging these bands out with beanies, backpacks, hoodies, and the like.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There are gates in this country made in such a manner, that the top rail of the gate overshoots backwards the hind post, so as to counterpoise the gate, and prevent its swagging.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
He saw the lonely expanse of snow, the clouds swagging low, and between the two the line of dark fir-trees bowing in the wind.
From The Were-Wolf by Laurence Housman
Vocabulary lists containing swag
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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