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Recent Examples of fez
There’s a passenger with a bright-green buzz cut (in sharp contrast with that same orange), one with a platinum wig, a baby-blue turban, a sparkly hijab, a graduation cap, a fez, very big headphones.
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E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Read in English Post Buy Copies Nos últimos anos, a IA fez avanços significativos ao imitar a empatia humana.
—Jacqueline Carter, Harvard Business Review, 18 Feb. 2025
At least that's what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Don’t miss the cemetery, either, where the carvings atop each tombstone indicate that person’s station in life (a fez headdress was reserved for government officials, a turban for someone of the religious order, an anchor for a seaman, and so on).
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
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E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Read in English Post Buy Copies Nos últimos anos, a IA fez avanços significativos ao imitar a empatia humana.
—Jacqueline Carter, Harvard Business Review, 18 Feb. 2025
At least that's what the horse wearing a fez just told me* in a dream.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Don’t miss the cemetery, either, where the carvings atop each tombstone indicate that person’s station in life (a fez headdress was reserved for government officials, a turban for someone of the religious order, an anchor for a seaman, and so on).
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fez
Noun
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Every failure of the state now stains the turban as well as the uniform.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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Singh, who would be our local guide, always wore the five traits of a pious Sikh man — uncut hair (symbolizing strength and holiness and topped by the identifying turban), a steel bracelet, wooden comb, sheathed dagger and a baggy undergarment dating back to the Sikhs’ warrior days on horses.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Newspapers kept running a photograph of an internationally famous heiress toting a machine gun while wearing a saucy beret.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Kardashian paired her velvet set with sheer stockings, patent leather pumps, a beret, and cat-eye sunglasses.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That’s what lawmakers grappled with Monday when a local conservative provocateur came to testify on an immigration bill wearing brownface and a sombrero and speaking Spanish.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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This deepfake video is the latest shared by the administration that has drawn criticism, after an artificial video of Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office (which never happened) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Playing in 20-degree weather, the Canadians covered their heads with toques, flat caps, and berets.—
Lee Glandorf,
Outside,
2 Feb. 2026
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Formerly the executive toque at Stockholm’s Frantzén—one of the best restaurants in the world—Jernmark is offering up a four-course menu with no official wine pairings, for a much more relaxed environment that evokes California cool.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Police said the thief was wearing a skullcap and a black hooded sweat shirt.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
1 Feb. 2026
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The collection includes fabrics and objects that had served daily domestic functions and rare ritual ones: shrine covers and skullcaps, costumes and carpets.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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He was photographed on Tuesday arriving and departing the Southwark court in a leopard print shirt with several buttons undone and a fedora hat.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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Shloime was never without his hat, a black fedora with a narrow brim and small red feather sticking out of the hatband.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The man in the statue wears a kufi, a round, brimless cap common in the region.—
Kayla Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Nov. 2025
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Other traditions were also represented: The opening processional included religious officials wearing a yarmulke (Judaism), a kufi (Islam) and a long black robe (Eastern Orthodox Christianity).—
Blake Nelson,
Mercury News,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Folks in the South will recognize ingredients like oxtails and butter beans, which are combined with Jamaican green seasoning, Scotch bonnet, and allspice in Fowles's recipe.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Look at him carrying his baby to the park, to the market, to the playground; tying a bonnet to her head; slathering her plump pink arms with organic sunblock.—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Fez.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fez. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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