proper to
idiom
formal
: belonging to or suited to (something)
Are such violent emotions proper to poetry?
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While many may leave the city proper to park at a depot and charge between business hours, others, like taxis, need to be able to charge on the go.
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Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
But the restaurant also has outlawed shorts and leggings — which has set an internet debate ablaze about what’s proper to wear to a restaurant, especially in the heat of summer.
—Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
In the end, with Sommer clearly irritated that the jury was being forced to wait for the trial proper to start up, about half of the defense’s redactions, mainly the ones on Baldwin’s personal life, were permitted – though remarks about his wife coming to visit him in New Mexico were allowed.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 July 2024
An Indian mother needs her mangoes, after all, and Hilary needs to appear prim and proper to impress her.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Saar grew up in Watts, one of Los Angeles’s historically working-class neighborhoods, before her family moved outside of the city proper to the more affluent Pasadena, not far from the museum’s grounds.
—Evan Nicole Brown, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Nor can it be performed with any clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2023
Brands and housekeeping manuals promptly pop up to educate white women in the attitudes, behaviors, and anxieties proper to the housewifely role.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
In Tuesday’s filing, prosecutors defend the use of a federal grand jury in the nation’s capital, as well as one in South Florida, to hear evidence in the matter, saying the two-pronged approach was proper to investigate criminal conduct that allegedly occurred in both places.
—Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
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Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
But the restaurant also has outlawed shorts and leggings — which has set an internet debate ablaze about what’s proper to wear to a restaurant, especially in the heat of summer.
—Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
In the end, with Sommer clearly irritated that the jury was being forced to wait for the trial proper to start up, about half of the defense’s redactions, mainly the ones on Baldwin’s personal life, were permitted – though remarks about his wife coming to visit him in New Mexico were allowed.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 July 2024
An Indian mother needs her mangoes, after all, and Hilary needs to appear prim and proper to impress her.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Saar grew up in Watts, one of Los Angeles’s historically working-class neighborhoods, before her family moved outside of the city proper to the more affluent Pasadena, not far from the museum’s grounds.
—Evan Nicole Brown, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Nor can it be performed with any clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2023
Brands and housekeeping manuals promptly pop up to educate white women in the attitudes, behaviors, and anxieties proper to the housewifely role.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
In Tuesday’s filing, prosecutors defend the use of a federal grand jury in the nation’s capital, as well as one in South Florida, to hear evidence in the matter, saying the two-pronged approach was proper to investigate criminal conduct that allegedly occurred in both places.
—Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
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