chic
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WSJ | Buy Side: The best beach bags include durable, waterproof picks as well as chic options that transition from sand to sidewalk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
And yes, it was just as satisfying as any pantry pasta — equally chic, if you care about that kind of thing.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Fery was born in Sevres, a chic neighbourhood just outside Paris, but the family moved to London before his first birthday.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
AJU Continuum teamed up with L.A. architecture and interior design studio Design, Bitches — the group behind the chic Checker Hall in Highland Park and Verve Coffee Roasters in the Arts District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Showing a chic portrait of Elizebeth at work, it tagged her as “the Amazing Cryptanalyst” that “Uncle Sam” was counting on.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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I think it’s because, with the feel-me walls, the bend-’n-sniff tubes, the claymation-like animated embroideries, it seemed like a grown-up version of the children’s “discovery” gallery, but with much chicer clothes.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
After one of the chicer funeral scenes committed to film, Marianne covers for Jean-Paul to the police, despite the fact Jean-Paul had just declared his desire to leave her for Penelope.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Next to last year’s model, this one has a sleeker and chicer vibe.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2020
Happy hour at home just got a whole lot chicer, with bar carts popping up in a variety of prices, colors and styles, including modern, minimal and industrial.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
The channel gave you the recipes for being chicer, more alternative, more you; for being gayer, blacker, more confrontational; for being cooler, basically.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
Ahead of Saturday's awards ceremony, AFP brings you some of the chicest and craziest looks, and also the actor who brought a bit of grit to the glamour.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
That’s according to Vogue, which declared in January that cabbage is the chicest vegetable of 2026.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
Some of the chicest flatware is designed by architects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
When Ogaan — one of India’s chicest multidesigner Indian boutiques — opened down the street from where they lived, Sabyasachi was captivated.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
All our chicest stock-jokes and pet patter they mops up, like mugs as they are, For they might cut their own chaff, eh, Charlie? not borrow it all from the bar.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
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