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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
After class, Rae puts on an oversize denim button-down embroidered with Winnie the Pooh characters and grabs her pewter Prada handbag.
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
Ralph Lauren could not have built his empire if button-down shirts and penny loafers were exclusively conservative attire.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
Pair them with a sweatshirt for casual wear or dress them up with a button-down and jacket for dinner.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
Rebecca Harding Rebecca Harding, the founder of Lui, wore a blue and white flowing tartan skirt and a button-down blue collared shirt courtesy of Ralph Lauren.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 13 Jan. 2025
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025
Ralph Lauren could not have built his empire if button-down shirts and penny loafers were exclusively conservative attire.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
Pair them with a sweatshirt for casual wear or dress them up with a button-down and jacket for dinner.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
Rebecca Harding Rebecca Harding, the founder of Lui, wore a blue and white flowing tartan skirt and a button-down blue collared shirt courtesy of Ralph Lauren.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for button-down
Adjective
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Perhaps football reinforces traditional gender norms.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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The star ingredients are the calendula petals, a beloved medicinal herb in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, celebrated for their calming, skin-soothing properties.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
19 Jan. 2025
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In recent years, DEI has become a social and political lightning rod for lawmakers, corporate leaders and conservative activists who have sought to cast such initiatives as unfair and even racist, with some emboldened by the Supreme Court’s gutting of affirmative action.—
Nicquel Terry Ellis,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Since then, Republican President Donald Trump appointed three new conservative justices during his first term, shifting the court to the right.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
22 Jan. 2025
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These people are always looking for new and more efficient ways to do things, so may be seen as troublemakers in conventional organizations.—
Martin Zwilling,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Those guidelines include providing alt text on images so that people with visual impairments who use automatic readers can understand images, offering audio descriptions for people with hearing disabilities, and making all websites operable by keyboard for users who can’t use a conventional mouse.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC News,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Button-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/button-down. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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