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a button-down architectural firm would never have the imagination to produce such a cutting-edge design
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Recent Examples of button-down
Probably the most iconic of her outfits is her white Dior button-down shirt worn beneath a Wiederhoeft corset, paired with Gaultier black-and-white pinstriped pants.
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Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 7 May 2026
Whether the look is a satin midi paired with a crisp button-down or a slinky slip styled with a graphic T-shirt, the goal here is to make the material feel effortless—a look that could work just as well at a casual weekend hang as a dream dinner in Paris.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 May 2026
Dart was dressed in a pinstripe suit, a black button-down shirt and a white hat.
—Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2026
Taking notes from her high-fashion style playbook, wear a corset top over a white button-down shirt and trousers for subversive edge.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 1 May 2026
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Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 7 May 2026
Whether the look is a satin midi paired with a crisp button-down or a slinky slip styled with a graphic T-shirt, the goal here is to make the material feel effortless—a look that could work just as well at a casual weekend hang as a dream dinner in Paris.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 May 2026
Dart was dressed in a pinstripe suit, a black button-down shirt and a white hat.
—Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2026
Taking notes from her high-fashion style playbook, wear a corset top over a white button-down shirt and trousers for subversive edge.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button-down
Adjective
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Bedside lanterns, traditional tea pots above the minibar, and authentic decorative pottery fill the room.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 May 2026
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But Hadler does not believe that fibromyalgia should be classified as a disease in the traditional biomedical sense, because medicine has yet to identify a discrete, demonstrable pathophysiological process underlying it.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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The Religion News Service reports the speakers are almost entirely conservative Christians, a key part of the president’s political base.—
Joseph Bonasia,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2026
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The two Republicans, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and conservative commentator Steve Hilton, spoke of a halcyon California destroyed by feckless Democrats and vowed a return to those days.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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The documentary traces Hier’s path from an orthodox Jewish enclave to international prominence as the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2026
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In the nineteen-seventies, Franciscan University, a small school on a hill above the downtown, became a center for charismatic Catholicism, an expressive, theologically orthodox movement that paralleled the development of the evangelical Jesus People and secular hippie culture.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Button-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button-down. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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