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belle

[bel] / bɛl /


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The recollections are told, often, as if the person interviewed is back at a time when Parker seemed like a simple, bubbly, unaffected Texas belle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

During the Comic Con panel, Evans called the festivities “wonderful and beautiful,” but said that he and his belle were happy to be winding down after the whole ordeal.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2025

Many of them were built in the early 20th century - grand belle epoque palaces serving a then emerging class of privileged, primarily English tourists.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

Nor is she the family-friendly belle seen in the 2022 family-friendly musical “The Lincolns of Springfield.”

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2024

Von Rumpel limps through the rooms with their faded white moldings and ancient kerosene lamps and embroidered curtains and belle epoque mirrors and ships in glass bottles and push-button electrical switches, all dead.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Now, thanks to how fast AI is changing, they are the belles of the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

If the pure plays are the current belles of the ball, IBM could be the long-term keeper for investors.

From Barron's Dec. 10, 2025

Tabitha Pritts, described by the local newspaper as “one of the most popular belles of the Nooksack Valley,” caught his eye, and he hers.

From Seattle Times Jan. 20, 2023

"Our friends had been contacted by a movie company that wanted to film a fictional scene of Southern belles making their debut," he wrote.

From Salon Oct. 27, 2020

I just kept walking across the huge room until below me was a pile of hay belles.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos




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