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Recent Examples of four-in-hand
Steyer was one of them, a hyper-energetic San Franciscan who wore tartan ties with a four-in-hand knot, committing to bundle a historic amount of money for Democrats who’d fight climate change.
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David Weigel,
semafor.com,
10 June 2026
He was dressed in a white shirt, dusky-blue suit trousers, and a blue tie knotted, with two crisp dimples, into a four-in-hand.
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Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
Most people who wear ties are familiar with the four-in-hand knot, and perhaps the Windsor and the half-Windsor.
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Matthew Hutson,
The New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2023
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
10 June 2026
He was dressed in a white shirt, dusky-blue suit trousers, and a blue tie knotted, with two crisp dimples, into a four-in-hand.
—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
Most people who wear ties are familiar with the four-in-hand knot, and perhaps the Windsor and the half-Windsor.
—
Matthew Hutson,
The New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for four-in-hand
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
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The trade comes after years of uncertainty surrounding Milwaukee's direction following the departure of championship-winning head coach Mike Budenholzer in 2023 and caps a steady decline that culminated in the Bucks missing the 2026 playoffs.
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University of Michigan men's basketball coach Dusty May is leaving for the Dallas Mavericks head coaching job, two sources confirmed to CBS News Texas Monday morning.
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Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
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The Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Like watching a chariot crash with a rider named Oedipus.
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The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
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There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.
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Another historic gem, Black Mountain Inn, was built in the 1830s as a stagecoach stop.
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Martha moved the antique wicker chaise below out to her driveway and sprayed it dusty rose to match the bedroom's walls.
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In a photo shared in her People cover story, which was shot by photographer Ruven Afanador, Shakira could be seen lounging on a brocade-upholstered chaise while modeling a nude cowl neck slip dress made out of nothing but mesh.
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“Four-in-hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/four-in-hand. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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