costume
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To help bring his vision to life, Riley enlisted costume designer Shirley Kurata, the Oscar-nominated stylist behind the equally surreal "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Footage purportedly of Sunday's incident filmed by other zoogoers and shared on social media shows a person wearing a costume and carrying a stuffed toy jumping over a fence and into the monkey enclosure.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The choreographer asked her costume designer, Robert Perdziola, to dress her dancers in a variety of looks, with flouncy tutus for the women in her first movement and limp, longer skirts in the others.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
From the top of my second-place science fair trophy, I snatched my plastic fangs from last year’s Halloween costume.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing costume
Party Parlance for Mardi Gras
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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