apparel
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Food supply chains, motor vehicles and parts, household furnishings, apparel, recreational goods and some nondurable goods are among the categories most likely to experience “meaningful spillovers” from higher diesel prices, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Brown and his Black Pyramid Co. apparel business, a co-defendant, argued in their motion filed in August that the award to Patricia Avila was “excessive and unsupported by evidence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
"A lot of apparel today, whether it's Nike or other large brands, can feel disconnected from anything tangible," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The apparel company said Wednesday that total company revenue for the second quarter rose 8% to $1.38 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile the girl fetched all her soiled apparel to bundle in the polished wagon box.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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The Clean Clothes Campaign said it was braced for further cases of union suppression across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
It is also adding to fears among labour rights campaigners that Covid-19 is providing cover for an industry-wide suppression of workers’ voices across the apparels industry.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2020
India unit and Mandhana Industries Ltd., an Indian maker of apparels with 5,000 employees in Mumbai and Bangalore, will give workers the option of taking the afternoon off.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 30, 2011
The Alb is often trimmed handsomely with lace, the apparels are stitched on to the front.
From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes
"All thinges perteyninge to the same" here includes the vestments for the assistants, and the stoles, maniples, and apparels.
In contrast to the usual portrayals, Barbara Flynn’s matronly Mary is as confident and imperious as her cousin, if not nearly as well appareled.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
The king’s three officers enter, richly appareled, their figures showing in strong relief against the red sky.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
The gentle government agent sits on the platform, and in front of the rostrum is the splendidly appareled chief mudiliyar, to interpret between auctioneer and buyers.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
The Earl of that island was appareled all in white, cloak, jerkin, hose, shoes and cap, so that he seemed a Lord of the Gipsies.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
As a child, his world had been "apparelled in celestial light," but no longer.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the middle of it there was a green silk canopy borne on four spears by four knights gorgeously apparelled.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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By-and-by a couple of cavaliers, splendidly mounted and magnificently apparelled, came galloping up.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Cleopatra was apparelled in a robe of pale green, open at either side, and clasped with golden bees.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
Wordsworth idealized newborns, who he said entered life “trailing clouds of glory” and appareling all they saw in “celestial light.”
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2013
The day came at last, and at ten Mrs. Dillingham entered the grand drawing-room in her queenly appareling.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
Pale and hard the face rose from this somber and gorgeous appareling.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
For as Apollo each eve doth devise A new appareling for western skies; So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
The kind doctor was still by during the apparelling, or the attempt at it.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then, having finished apparelling us and still chuckling, the two touched our arms and led us out, into a room whose circular sides were ringed with soft divans.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
They were always apparelling themselves in gaudy dresses from Paris, and going away to balls, leaving their meritorious little sister weeping at home in their every-day finery.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
"It is time that I were attending to my own apparelling, which, in looking at thee, I quite forgot," said the widow, rising, and leaving the apartment.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
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