pantsuit
Americannoun
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pantsuits
plural
noun
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Poised and polished, with a sharp pantsuit and practiced smile, Fujimori looks like someone raised for politics.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
There was an accountant in a suit and an obstetrician in a red pantsuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Mamet: In that pantsuit, with her hair in a bun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
The progress-implying optimism of the white pantsuit, a nod to the suffragists, seems inadequate to the occasion.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2024
She’s in a navy pantsuit, no makeup, dark hair pulled back into a bun.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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“As women have found their voice politically, they have begun to express themselves sartorially,” Friedman wrote in 2017, “be it through white pantsuits, so-called pussy hats or the modest fashion movement.”
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2024
If you thought waterbeds had gone the way of 1970s trends like Troll dolls and polyester pantsuits, you are mostly correct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Giorgio Armani layered on the shimmer and shine for his fall haute couture collection, sending sparkling pantsuits and ballgowns down a slick runway.
From Reuters ● Jul. 11, 2023
She likes pantsuits, and only black ones, so that when you use your water bottle before a briefing in the Oval to clean the yogurt stain from breakfast, it doesn’t show.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Dolores says, walking into the living room dressed in one of the dark pantsuits she wears to weddings.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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