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swank

[swangk] / swæŋk /




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As anyone who has shopped these vehicles knows, Genesis reels buyers in with a long list of swank, class-above amenities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

While the properties have been zoned for use as supportive housing for years, they are surrounded by swank condominiums that have sold for as much as $7 million.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 12, 2026

EVANSTON, Ill.— Bryan and Kay Keenan just paid $2 million for a 1,600-square-foot apartment in The Mather, a swank retirement community here.

From Barron's Oct. 26, 2025

“My comfort zone is being outside of my comfort zone,” León said from his shopping-bag-strewn suite at a swank Beverly Hills hotel in California, his girlfriend and team at his side.

From New York Times May 27, 2024

“We are faster, stronger, and whatever you may think, smarter than our patrons. Does it worry the swank girl to run across a creature like me, running free?”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

To stop one owner from taking three buildings nonunion, 15 janitors and organizers staged a mock funeral, carrying a coffin symbolizing "the death of justice" past the owner's home in one of Washington's swanker neighborhoods.

From Time Magazine Archive

A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spends his money quickly, alas! that poor young swanker.'

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

I made a serious blunder when I asked one of them a question about Ypres, for I pronounced the name French fashion, which put me under suspicion as a "swanker."

From Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall, James Norman

Brodard Chateau is probably the swankest restaurant in Little Saigon, a converted Victorian mansion marooned on a freeway frontage road.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2017

The swankest New Year’s Eve in the city harks back to the 1950s with a gala black-tie dinner created by chef Jacques Sorci at the Carlyle Restaurant.

From BusinessWeek Dec. 27, 2011

According to the Wall Street Journal, "PC is one of six teenagers on the show, who flaunt their family riches as the cameras follow them around NYC’s swankest restaurants and boutiques."

From Salon Jul. 19, 2011

Mr. Bolton's personal check for $125,000 assured Cleveland the 1936 Republican convention; his champagne reassured 500 Party bigwigs at the convention's swankest reception.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third confidant was an older man of sad mien who would have passed easily in the swankest of Washington, New York or London private clubs.

From The Common Man by Schelling, George Luther




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