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“There’s a very well-tailored response saying, ‘Learning about his trauma,’ because they couldn’t say that they didn’t know about this or know what had happened, or anything,” Bell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

“In an age of well-tailored virtuoso conductors,” Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times in 1961, “he stands out like a Michelangelo sculpture among Dresden figurines.”

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Fortunately, like smart denim layering and a well-tailored blazer, you'll always be in style with this cocktail in hand.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022

Its writer described Tutu as “a handsome figure in his well-tailored gray suit over a magenta shirt with a white clerical collar.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Perhaps if Obiora had not said, “Uncle Eugene,” I would not have known that it was Papa, that the tall stranger in the well-tailored white tunic was Papa.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie