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Recent Examples of top hat
Nothing — except, perhaps, for watching a perfectly nice love interest in a top hat get blown to smithereens by an out-of-control carriage.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top hat
Noun
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
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Meanwhile, Prince Harry looked similarly streamlined in a button-up shirt, baseball cap, grey cigarette jeans, and suede green sneakers.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
16 Feb. 2026
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Wayne Antusas sits behind a wooden desk in a classroom in the A3 unit at Westville Correctional Facility, wearing a black T-shirt and a black baseball cap emblazoned with the Builder of Men Ministries logo.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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The arrest has drawn widespread attention, as the child had just returned home from preschool with his father and was wearing a Spider Man backpack and blue stocking cap with bunny ears when detained.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Jan. 2026
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Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Security cameras capture a masked man wearing glasses and a hard hat spraying security cameras with blue paint inside a Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel parking garage.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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His hard hat bears months of nicks and scrapes, testament to the massive transformation underway in the 25,000-square-foot former food court at the Shops at Rivercenter mall in downtown San Antonio.—
Paul Stephen,
San Antonio Express-News,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.—
Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
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One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.—
Elizabeth Djinis,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2024
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2021
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Bianco, who is often seen sporting a cowboy hat, grew up in a small mining town in Utah, moving to Southern California in 1989.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
7 Feb. 2026
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Gamers who purchase the pass will immediately receive a pink costume, complete with glittered cowboy hat.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Top hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20hat. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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