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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

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

Grant, also Reeves’ longtime friend and collaborator, said she shared the tender photo of her and her beau as a way to thank fans for their best wedding wishes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2025

Fighting with her dead sister over a beau, my goodness.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

A woman has learned a little more about her late grandmother now that she’s gone through a 73-year-old scrapbook of her grandma’s former beaus.

From Fox News Oct. 11, 2021

Martha’s ambivalence regarding her beaus arose from an unsettled family life.

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2021

A young bride-to-be hopes to uncover which of her mother’s old beaus is her real father in this romantic musical built around the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2019

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

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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 art deco, beaux arts and neoclassical style includes limestone panels, enhanced with floral and fluted designs.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2017

Darlene cleared her throat and enunciated carefully, “There sure was plenty beaux at the bowl, honey, but I still got me honor.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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