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Recent Examples of vitrine
During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.
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Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
The hallway behind the elevators serves as a mini museum, complete with a historical timeline and glass vitrine with photographs, documents, and other objects from the hotel’s storied history.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
The thistle flower — part of Loro Piana’s coat of arms since 1951 — is featured in a vitrine, in a field of vases.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
The leg of the journey continued up a spiral staircase to a roof deck where guests discovered a key necklace style in a glass vitrine overlooking the East River, its bridges, and Manhattan, truly a death-defying jewelry display.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
The hallway behind the elevators serves as a mini museum, complete with a historical timeline and glass vitrine with photographs, documents, and other objects from the hotel’s storied history.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
The thistle flower — part of Loro Piana’s coat of arms since 1951 — is featured in a vitrine, in a field of vases.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
The leg of the journey continued up a spiral staircase to a roof deck where guests discovered a key necklace style in a glass vitrine overlooking the East River, its bridges, and Manhattan, truly a death-defying jewelry display.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitrine
Noun
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Best Wayfair Memorial Day Décor and Storage Sales Décor is the final touch that adds personality to a home, and nothing brings a style together like an area rug, bookcase, or cozy bench.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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So Palmieri Schwartz carved out a small seating arrangement with a Barrel Curved Sofa from Bright Chair and a Shea Swivel Chair from Hickory Chair, using an open bookcase to divide the TV area from the rest of the loft.—
Laura Fenton,
Midwest Living,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Other quirky details of the ’60s-era file credenza include a lock that can be opened and closed with a coin (a subtle nod to the fact that the company was originally a hardware and lock business).—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
18 May 2026
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Framed family photos and a black ceramic panther sit on the credenza.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Mini bars are disguised in Chinoiserie cabinets; bed heads are hand-embroidered; and the toto loo seats in the white-marble bathrooms exude a gentle heat.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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The exhibition’s centerpiece was Times Square Alliance Playset, 2025, a more spacious LCD cabinet in which three South Park–style characters invented by the artist—two parents and a daughter—spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Cariif was pronounced dead at the scene, and an autopsy showed he was shot once in the chest.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
29 May 2026
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All his body weight is on my chest.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, and former health secretary Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who emerged late in the campaign as a front-runner, led a crowded field in the California governor’s race Wednesday morning.—
Praveena Somasundaram,
Washington Post,
3 June 2026
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In April 2025, Michigan’s secretary of state released an audit of its voter rolls.—
Carl Leubsdorf,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
Noun
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If there's a Southern sideboard in view, there's a casserole dish brimming with corn pudding on it.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
24 May 2026
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This sideboard is both substantial and polished, with a combination of drawers and cabinets offering plenty of room to stash everyday clutter.—
Tanya Sharma,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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For many of us, stemmed crystal sparkled under the dimmed light of a breakfront while a collection of coffee mugs were stacked gingerly on top of each other in a shuttered cabinet.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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Tucked between a George II mahogany breakfront secretaire bookcase and a series of manuscript and watercolor maps showing the waterways of Venice, Clausen found a type of antiquated nautical map known as a portolan chart.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Oct. 2023
Noun
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Food trucks will be on-site, and VIP tickets include a buffet dinner.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
29 May 2026
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Breakfast is taken in the same restaurant, curated by Ducasse himself, and is entirely a la carte (no buffets here), with pain au chocolats made with cocoa from Ducasse’s own chocolatier in Paris.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
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“Vitrine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitrine. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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