tailored
Americanadjective
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(of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines.
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having simple, straight lines and a neat appearance.
tailored slipcovers.
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Efforts to get small shops to sell more nutritious food work best when they are created in partnership with store owners and tailored to fit the needs of local communities.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
"This suggests that prevention efforts may be more effective if they are tailored not just to risk factor prevalence, but to how strongly each factor affects cognition in women versus men."
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
D-Wave Quantum: The company has cornered the market for “annealing quantum,” an approach tailored to optimization tasks like logistics and data sampling.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
The Chinese readout emphasized energy security, infrastructure investment and regional stability—language tailored for Riyadh, not Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The reason I was almost naked on a pedestal clapping was that I was getting a suit tailored.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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