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swank

[swangk] / swæŋk /




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American Airlines introduced souped-up suites last year and Delta’s going all-in on its swank Delta One lounges.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

EVANSTON, Ill.— Bryan and Kay Keenan just paid $2 million for a 1,600-square-foot apartment in The Mather, a swank retirement community here.

From Barron's Oct. 26, 2025

“My comfort zone is being outside of my comfort zone,” León said from his shopping-bag-strewn suite at a swank Beverly Hills hotel in California, his girlfriend and team at his side.

From New York Times May 27, 2024

The press conference was held at the Dorchester’s swank Hotel Eden, located just off Rome’s Via Veneto.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2024

“She might have been a swank once. But she’s scavenge now.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

To stop one owner from taking three buildings nonunion, 15 janitors and organizers staged a mock funeral, carrying a coffin symbolizing "the death of justice" past the owner's home in one of Washington's swanker neighborhoods.

From Time Magazine Archive

A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He's a swanker," was the greeting of Miss Press, as she offered her hand and then withdrew it playfully before Mr. Harper could take it.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

He spends his money quickly, alas! that poor young swanker.'

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Brodard Chateau is probably the swankest restaurant in Little Saigon, a converted Victorian mansion marooned on a freeway frontage road.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2017

The swankest New Year’s Eve in the city harks back to the 1950s with a gala black-tie dinner created by chef Jacques Sorci at the Carlyle Restaurant.

From BusinessWeek Dec. 27, 2011

According to the Wall Street Journal, "PC is one of six teenagers on the show, who flaunt their family riches as the cameras follow them around NYC’s swankest restaurants and boutiques."

From Salon Jul. 19, 2011

The country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third confidant was an older man of sad mien who would have passed easily in the swankest of Washington, New York or London private clubs.

From The Common Man by Schelling, George Luther




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