as in polite
following the established traditions of refined society and good taste
though he was wearing a dinner jacket and a black bow tie, his jeans and tennis shoes were hardly de rigueur
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Recent Examples of de rigueur
After all, double cleansing is de rigueur in the land of K-beauty.
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Jenny Berg, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
The humor courses through the score, which is a few cuts above the de rigueur movie-to-musical standard.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
As is de rigueur in movie marketing, studios don’t blatantly sell musicals as musicals or else no one will show up.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
As expected from the brand, beds and towels are luxuriously plush, and cushy robes and in-room kimonos are de rigueur here.
—Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
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Jenny Berg, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
The humor courses through the score, which is a few cuts above the de rigueur movie-to-musical standard.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
As is de rigueur in movie marketing, studios don’t blatantly sell musicals as musicals or else no one will show up.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
As expected from the brand, beds and towels are luxuriously plush, and cushy robes and in-room kimonos are de rigueur here.
—Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for de rigueur
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The level of outward emotional expression here is simply kept at a level true to figures who may inwardly be reaching their boiling point, but are still held back by self-respect and polite manners.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
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Then Threads, which has a little bit of an issue of feeling kind of like LinkedIn and being very polite, but then has that benefit of Meta being able to push users from Instagram to Thread.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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The number of students who report that shouting down a speaker to stop a campus speech, blocking other students from attending a campus speech, and using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable in some form has risen incrementally since 2022.Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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There are also gender-role stereotypes that impact people's understanding of how they are 'allowed' or expected to grieve and show emotion, based on what has been deemed 'acceptable' in society.David Oliver, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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Braun’s version trades this for a respectable plausibility, recasting the doorman as a head waiter who struggles mightily against his demotion and is eventually rewarded with the role of hotel director.Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Two hundred of her closest family and friends made it on the nice list and were invited to her winter celebration.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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The result improved on the efficiency of previous packings, while making use of a novel approach: Rather than packing spheres in a nice, organized way, as Viazovska had done, the mathematicians used graph theory to pack spheres in a very disorderly fashion.Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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There are sacrifices that have to be made in this life that lead to a sort of ebbing and flowing that’s integral to the proper running of things, like a stream.Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
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Here’s how can Hoosiers help bats at home Installing bat boxes can help provide emergency shelters for bats that might need them when proper roosts are unavailable.Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Dec. 2024
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What People Are Saying In 2023, Alexey Melnikov, executive secretary of the public monitoring commission of Moscow, said that Spector was being held in satisfactory conditions.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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And for years, boosters have struggled to offer up a satisfactory answer.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Some were skeptical that this could be correct, but more reports were needed to be sure.David Phelan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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But the fact that many formulations of string theory include gravity does not tell you which formulation provides the correct description of the real world.Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
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“De rigueur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de%20rigueur. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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