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beau

[boh] / boʊ /


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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

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

Old enough to know that John Donaldson, her beau of more than a decade, was the man she wanted to marry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

It’s not surprising that Mr. Serrano found his way to Ms. Wilson, who, like Mr. Duncan, the author’s beau ideal of a player, “banks in beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The fever departed, and Dr. Trefusis now in health, he walked abroad, dressed in his stolen habiliment, swinging a cane like a beau of the first fashion.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

As Kya’s contrasting young beaus, Dickinson and Smith look pretty much interchangeable, but each actor aptly conveys his respective role: brutal jock in the case of Chase, and sensitive scholar for Tate.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022

How many gatherings will it take before these reluctant beaus admit to their affection?

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020

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

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

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

“We occupy three beaux arts mansions that were originally private homes. The buildings are landmarked, and our donors today are philanthropists and supporters of education for girls.”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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