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as in sufficing
to be fitting or proper
no, a second-floor room won't suit if there's no elevator, since one of us has a disability
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as in pleasing
to give satisfaction to
the location of our hotel suited us just fine
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as in clothing
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
went to the party suited in a strange getup that he'd picked out himself
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as in tailoring
to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation
a bohemian by nature, she would have to suit her behavior to the corporate culture
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Recent Examples of suiting
Take, for instance, her fondness for full-length coats with tiny bottoms, her love of monochromatic dressing, or her willingness to try mens suiting with gusto.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Olivia Frances Brown Olivia Frances Brown put a casual spin on suiting at the Golden Globes Celebrating 2024 BFI London Film Festival on Sunday.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 14 Oct. 2024
Skinny suiting just looks horrid and out of date.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
Among her suited looks, Biden embraced her power suiting era at Ralph Lauren’s New York Fashion Week spring 2025 party earlier this month, wearing the Ralph Lauren Collection’s Beckman blazer.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Olivia Frances Brown Olivia Frances Brown put a casual spin on suiting at the Golden Globes Celebrating 2024 BFI London Film Festival on Sunday.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 14 Oct. 2024
Skinny suiting just looks horrid and out of date.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
Among her suited looks, Biden embraced her power suiting era at Ralph Lauren’s New York Fashion Week spring 2025 party earlier this month, wearing the Ralph Lauren Collection’s Beckman blazer.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024
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Still, at 54, Silverman relates to the feeling that many women have in midlife of being more self-confident and less worried about pleasing others.Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
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That complex has successfully killed career and technical education (CTE), which values skills other than taking tests, writing essays, and pleasing teachers.Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Suitable for ages 3 and up, this show is a illuminated spectacle befitting the whole family.Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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An immersive orchestral experience befitting the whole family, spend this holiday evening with the spectacular sound of strings singing spooky Christmas carols.Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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The agency’s new model is at the forefront of marketing innovation, but its values also contribute to satisfying outcomes.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Marketers have always focused on first satisfying functional needs before moving on to emotional ones.Billee Howard, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Sustaining Legacy And Scaling Responsibly As a second-generation entrepreneur, one of my central objectives has been finding ways to uphold these values while adapting and growing in a changing market.Mustafa Gandhi, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Businesses must have agile leadership to keep adapting to new situations, and leaders need to be able to think strategically, make decisions based on data and respond quickly to disruptions happening around them.Jon Michail, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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This was after adjusting for bonds listed across multiple platforms.Barnet Sherman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Conforming Conforming involves adjusting your own beliefs or behaviors to align with someone else’s.Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The installation and monthly fees related to those alarm systems are also deductible as part of the cost of doing business on those types of properties.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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But the third nominee, Robin Williams, still got on stage at the insistence of Nicholson and ended up doing a spot-on imitation of him.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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In the past, researchers have pinned culpability on the rapidly warming climate, arguing that Pleistocene beasts were unable to adapt as the world climbed out of an ice age.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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But if global warming gets out of hand, warming four or five degrees Celsius, as many as 30% of species could be at risk.Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
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When faced with differences, individuals are likely to respond in one of three ways—by conforming and agreeing with the other person, seeking their validation or distancing themselves altogether.Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Industry analyst Jonathan Miller points out the increasing divergence between the loan limit and the median sales price that has been taking place for years, but was especially pronounced after the pandemic (conforming loan limits are calculated based on average sales price).Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Suiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suiting. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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