swag
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The millennials’ Williamsburg was not perfect, but at least it was special, and in this era of tech bros sitting at the helm of the neighborhood, it risks losing all swag entirely.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Does your relationship have a swag gap, and is that always a bad thing?
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Granted, there isn’t anything during the Washington festivities quite akin to the swag bag given to Oscar nominees.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Not a disease, just like a thing, man. It’s hard to explain. Like, she’s just so cool. She got like a thing, like a swag about her.”
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
The garden sits at the top of a steep rockery with stairs leading to an entry arbor swagged with the sweetly fragrant pink blooms of that original ‘New Dawn’.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Then the masks came off and the evening wear and famous faces appeared: in primary shades of taffeta and silk, ruched, woven and swagged.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
The blue-appointed restaurant at the May Company’s grand Wilshire Boulevard store was swagged in velvet curtains and lighted with enormous Italian chandeliers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
“You saw how I swagged it out a little bit?” he asked.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2016
The depot was swagged in red, white, and blue bunting.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
But photos in the new 60th anniversary edition of “The White House: An Historic Guide” reveal that there was a whole lot of swagging, fringing and gilding going on upstairs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
I don’t think I ever really care to watch Homeland again, even if Carrie is swagging around Istanbul.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2013
In return, Dakine is swagging these bands out with beanies, backpacks, hoodies, and the like.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw the lonely expanse of snow, the clouds swagging low, and between the two the line of dark fir-trees bowing in the wind.
From The Were-Wolf by Laurence Housman
He halted, though, standing rigid, his guns slowly swagging in his hands, their muzzles drooping.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
Vocabulary lists containing swag
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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