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tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
a button-down architectural firm would never have the imagination to produce such a cutting-edge design
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Recent Examples of button-down
The button-down top and matching pants are made with a blend of rayon and Tencel fabric that this shopping writer can also attest to feeling incredibly soft.
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Beshear was dressed to the nines in Lasso's signature aviator sunglasses, button-down shirt, visor and the iconic blue and white quarter zip.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
Styles include two Trucker-style jackets, a parka, a button-down shirt, Bowey 3D boyfriend jeans and Carpenter 3D loose jeans.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2024
Sevigny wore a plaid button-down shirt and a leg-baring plaid skirt with a train, both by edgy label Acne—the brand being celebrated at the dinner, perhaps?
—Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Beshear was dressed to the nines in Lasso's signature aviator sunglasses, button-down shirt, visor and the iconic blue and white quarter zip.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
Styles include two Trucker-style jackets, a parka, a button-down shirt, Bowey 3D boyfriend jeans and Carpenter 3D loose jeans.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2024
Sevigny wore a plaid button-down shirt and a leg-baring plaid skirt with a train, both by edgy label Acne—the brand being celebrated at the dinner, perhaps?
—Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button-down
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But there’s also been a subtle rebrand of the traditional end-of-season sale, too, with brands piggy-backing on the popularity of archival fashion.Emily Chan, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2024
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For Mathieson, the restrictions of Scott’s approach are countered by the sense of liberation that comes from working for a director unbound by traditional film grammar.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
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There’s no skirting around politics and with the majority of American voters pandering to a presidential candidate pushing for more conservative values this election, the body has become weaponized for power and control.Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024
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In the several years after the Belichick incident, in fact, coaches became more conservative on fourth down.Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Drone fleets are impractical if not impossible to shoot down with conventional projectiles.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps not coincidentally, by the time the first season ended, Tulsa King had become less of a lighthearted dramedy — about an old-fashioned New York crime boss way out of his element — and more of a conventional crime drama with betrayals, gunfights, and brooding regrets.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Button-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button-down. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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