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closet

[kloz-it] / ˈklɒz ɪt /


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Investigators found that Chavez-DeRemer repeatedly used federal employees for personal errands, including sending her personal aide and executive assistant to her home during the workday to organize her bedroom closet.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

The home even features an area Holly lovingly refers to as her “Rapunzel tower turret,” which includes a walk-in closet filled with her favorite fashions.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Located in Palisades Village, the new space takes inspiration from the warmth of coastal California homes, making the space feel more like the ideal closet rather than a traditional store.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Parton preferred to let her closet make the statements, while quietly building a kind of everybody-love-everybody progressivism that promoted equality and kindness while remaining mostly off-the-record.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

He crawled inside the closet and looked around.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Since retiring, we have settled into a slow-and-steady approach to downsizing, habitually scrutinizing drawers and closets and storage boxes anytime we open them, looking around rooms for little things to pass along.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

“The primary suite encompasses the entire upper level, offering a peaceful sanctuary complete with two walk-in closets and treetop views,” the listing notes.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Then there are the two walk-in closets, one of which features a sizable island at its center, ideal for storing accessories.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

Thirty years ago L.A. firefighters found children sleeping in closets and babies snoozing in dresser drawers.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

In the closets they found a variety of tools and equipment, but no obvious gear for milking gargantuan cows.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Part of this may have been an overreaction to pariah status, post-McCarthy, and part of it may have been the sensibility of a closeted gay man.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

We wanted to be mysterious and be closeted, and Katie was the one who encouraged us not to, and to just be ourselves.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“It kind of siphoned all of that pent-up, closeted stuff that you hold back, that you couldn’t freely express,” she said.

From Slate May 4, 2026

It’s a stunning moment, and one of the show’s most memorable scenes, because it earnestly captures the silent yearning that comprises so much of the gay experience, especially for closeted gay men.

From Salon Jan. 2, 2026

But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

That there exists so recent and clear an example of purposeful Hollywood closeting helps explain, to a certain extent, how these narratives can take hold.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2019

You haven’t been able to keep up with your regular phone calls because of the pain of closeting yourself.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2019

Soon he was closeting himself in his room listening raptly and endlessly to John Gielgud reciting Clarence’s speech from “Richard III,” desperately attempting to obliterate his Jersey accent.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2012

“We have no visibility, people are dying, and this whole world is just closeting everything.”

From Washington Post

No more closeting;, she could have one part of Old Chao, Janis and the children another.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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