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beau

[boh] / boʊ /


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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

Separately, UK actor Hannah Waddingham is depicted next to her "NHS surgeon beau", who the paper says has got a "Hollywood makeover".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Will’s beau idéal, Ronald Reagan, used it frequently on the rubber-chicken-and-peas circuit.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

During this visit Vincent will bring Theo to a party where they will see the Haanebeeks, including Caroline and her beau, and also her younger sister, Annet.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

This is a huge limitation, as Flock has been used by officers to track not just exes but the new beaus with whom they have moved on.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

To fight back, he started giving in-person architecture tours — in Kyiv and elsewhere — with hopes of convincing more people that his brutalist beaus are worth keeping.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022

Perhaps after November after I prove up, I can think about beaus.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

What strikes you first are his scenes’ forthright emotions—a group of women tearfully sending their beaux off to fight in World War II, the isolation of a young man dining alone at a cafeteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Or was she, as I’d rather think, cutting up her cardboard beaux in her mind even as she created them, and laughing at her public as much as at her characters?

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017

“How does Washington come on? Many beaux? Many believers? Many friends? Answer these questions you wicked little Maggie.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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