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Nora Colomer
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Fringe was responsible for a lot of movement, flounce, and drama this Fashion Week.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Kobi Halperin debuted a dress coat decked out with a gold fringe scarf draped over one shoulder, while Christopher John Rogers had fabric scrap-like fringe flouncing from the sides of collars and waistbands.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Noun
It's fitted through the chest and waist and has a full skirt detailed with a tiered flounce and delicate ruffles.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Fringe was responsible for a lot of movement, flounce, and drama this Fashion Week.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
Lilly represents the tension between the old and new guard, flouncing into the White House with a profound disregard for tradition and a voracious desire to tear it all down.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Kobi Halperin debuted a dress coat decked out with a gold fringe scarf draped over one shoulder, while Christopher John Rogers had fabric scrap-like fringe flouncing from the sides of collars and waistbands.
—Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flounce
Noun
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Creeping phlox is a great choice for edging, rock walls, or slopes, and will brighten any garden with its abundance of cheerful pastel blooms.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
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The pea gravel needs to be hemmed in with metal, plastic, or brick edging set firmly in place.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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And, to this day, they are meticulously trained from colts to perform spectacular feats of dressage, including some who can lift their front legs and seem to prance off the ground.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
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And after a long day of trekking, there’s nothing so restorative as a dip in the opulent bathtub, fringed by bricks of pink salt from Pakistan, while gazing out at the Nilgiri glowing ethereally in the dusk.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Feb. 2026
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Chromatic aberration is very well controlled, with minimal color fringing even when shooting wide open.—
Tantse Walter,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And for good measure, throw a bow and a ruffle on it, Easter Bunny.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2026
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Morrow Goods is known for cushy pillows with plenty of support, and this mini ruffle lumbar pillow is no different.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
28 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Though the famous Tropic of Cancer beach on Little Exuma is easily accessible by car for travelers staying on the archipelago’s two largest islands, travelers should plan a boat day to the cays to visit spots like Compass Cay, where friendly nurse sharks stalk tropical fish near natural tide pools.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
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Another protective order was filed by his ex-wife’s male coworker, who Culleton was allegedly stalking and threatening.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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Eager to make connections with important people, Kapoor invited mayors to ribbon cuttings and doled outmore than $100,000 in campaign checks from corporate accounts, about half of which went to a political committee supporting a losing candidate in this November’s Miami Beach mayoral race.—
Sarah Blaskey,
Miami Herald,
16 Dec. 2025
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The road that ribbons through the foothills rises and twists like the tail of a cat.—
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Caspian Sea nation halted truck traffic across the over 400-mile border with Iran.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
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Oli, 74, on his home turf in the Jhapa 5 constituency along the Indian border.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Jason doesn’t mince words about anything, not about collecting the right turds, the importance of buffalo, or the long road it’s taken to get here.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
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Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire co-founder and one of the right’s most prominent voices, did not mince words.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Flounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flounce. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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