suspender
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Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
Vertical suspender cables held up the deck, transferring its weight to giant suspension cables and out to enormous anchorages.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
If the 283 wires within each suspender rope were laid end-to-end, they would be 9,100 miles long — more than one-third of the circumference of the earth around the equator.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
West, Ryan Dean: A discovery of true Zen-like perfection, I got a leopard-spotted caveman-loincloth kind of thing that had one suspender strap that tied in a knot over the shoulder.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Looped into the traction and stability systems and the smartest brakes on the planet, the Turbo S’s high-voltage suspenders represent a major advance in client preservation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
A family of boys in suspenders appears; behind them are sandbags displaying paper targets with human outlines.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024
Saucepan Lynn is also a volunteer firefighter, so she cooks in her suspenders in case she has to run off.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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