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The likes of Nike and Adidas have long prided themselves on their ability to get out in front of whatever trend has cultural cachet with its fans.

The automaker’s decision to reduce its lineup and focus on just one vehicle—the 500X subcompact crossover—only adds to the cachet.

Pricing in media buys is always a complex calculation, dependent on time slot and event cachet, but these companies did not pay nothing.

The cultural value of declaring oneself a Peace Prize nominee, though, has proven irresistible, given the cachet still associated with the prize.

At first you wished you’d been assigned someone with a little more cachet.

“The [Rockefeller] name carries a certain cachet because of Standard Oil,” he said.

Time will tell whether the Upper East Side achieves lasting social cachet to go with the cash awash in the neighborhood.

There was no social cachet associated with jazz at that juncture in American history—if anything, the contrary.

Being a fan of Liquid Sky carries the cachet of degenerate hipness to this day, 32 years after it was filmed.

“I think there was a cachet about having an African-American president because of guilt,” she said.

Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.

A lettre de cachet was sent after him to Bordeaux; but he avoided it by crossing into Spain.

To think that any man of our free colony would use a lettre de cachet, and against a brother Canadian!

He procured lettres de cachet from the King, and shut up his disobedient and debauched son in various state-prisons.

There was no difficulty in obtaining this lettre de cachet, and the poor wretch was arrested and taken to the Bastille.