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The plays he’s drawn to don’t follow prescribed patterns but they wear their unconventionality with a difference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Each community can be distinguished by its signature colours - members of the Lafiaji association always wear red and white.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

But auditors might still have to wear someone else’s clothes on-site for the foreseeable future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

“A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen,” wrote William Soutar, a Scottish poet and diarist, in 1934.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“I’m not sure. I was told to wear a Chinese dress.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu