beau
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The Chopin that emerges in “Becoming George” is far from a Romantic beau ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The accolades come just five days after Swift married beau Travis Kelce in an extravagant — yet secretive — Manhattan affair at Madison Square Garden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Afterward the beau monde had a few days to find new costumes for the Monday Mayday masquerade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
When she begins dating the owner of a local pet shop, Iona immediately falls in step with her yuppie new beau.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
Aunt Margaret had a new beau and I suspected that she wasn’t giving my eighth-grade problems enough serious thought, but one day she did ask me if I knew the Pledge of Allegiance.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
As fate would have it, all that time spent researching how bats find their beaus may have led to another pairing.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 14, 2024
Shortly afterward, the two were out and about on a double date with their beaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
The couple double dates with friends who have their own fictional beaus, going out to high teas and posting photos on Instagram.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
Both beaus met Young's parents – though Young's family wasn't particularly fond of Jones, Us Weekly reports.
From Fox News ● Dec. 22, 2021
I hadn’t seen a picture of her since she’d been in high school and now she was twenty-one and taught music and had lots of beaus.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Over the years, Swift has been mocked for the often autobiographical nature of her songs — when not alluding to bad behavior by old beaux, she often pushed back against critics and producers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
The entire family showed up, including Kylie Jenner in a white ballgown with a matching hat and big sister Kourtney Kardashian in deconstructed Thom Browne to go with beaux Travis Barker’s Thom Browne suit.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2022
The book, as it stands, feels ominously loveless, more hospitable to dolts than to eligible beaux, yet at least seven writers have sought to flesh it out and, in so doing, to warm it up.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
The hulking beaux arts buildings that line streets such as Spring and Broadway are a testament to downtown’s former commercial might.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
Her beaux turned to me for consolation, and I gave them the same advice I have for you: Think no more of the minks, because she has already forgotten you.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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