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tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
a button-down architectural firm would never have the imagination to produce such a cutting-edge design
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Recent Examples of button-down
Why not switch up the colors and do a white button-down with rich blue barrel-leg jeans?
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2025
Balance butter yellow shorts and a matching button-down shirt by adding a light trench coat, khaki socks, and brown boat shoes.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
Loungewear sets are a common airport outfit, but Markle’s striped button-down shirt and matching flared pants looked comfortable, but also polished enough to wear to work or dinner.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2025
In an Instagram post shared on Feb. 27, Brown is seen wearing a gold button-down dress that Anderson wore in 2005.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2025
Balance butter yellow shorts and a matching button-down shirt by adding a light trench coat, khaki socks, and brown boat shoes.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
Loungewear sets are a common airport outfit, but Markle’s striped button-down shirt and matching flared pants looked comfortable, but also polished enough to wear to work or dinner.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2025
In an Instagram post shared on Feb. 27, Brown is seen wearing a gold button-down dress that Anderson wore in 2005.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button-down
Adjective
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The tour will blend traditional banda hits with technobanda and la quebradita, a music and dance explosion that took the scene by storm during the 1990s.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
1 Apr. 2025
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Launched in 2023 as part of Rolex’s homage to traditional watchmaking, the Perpetual 1908 carries Superlative Chronometer certification, ensuring precision within −2/+2 seconds per day.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In that joint letter, conservative groups warned Texas lawmakers that a court decision on the interchange fee restrictions enacted in Illinois means that state regulation of interchange fees must be extremely narrow in application in order to avoid violating the U.S. Constitution.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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This calls for a more conservative approach to spending and taxes.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Water Conservation: Unlike conventional farming, where excessive water use leads to runoff and waste, Oishii’s system recycles a whopping 95% of its water.—
Chrissy Tracey,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The filmmakers’ focus throughout was on making the timings flow — in the conventional terms of our sense of pace, of course, but also spatial logistics.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Button-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button-down. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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