beau
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When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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
Months into her relationship with Diggs, Cardi B told King she feels “very safe” with her new beau, who she says makes her feel “very confident and very strong.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
One by one her girlfriends caught a beau, but not her.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
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
Our 1976 senior class of 66 students featured black, white and Native American honor students, athletes, musicians, cheerleaders, beauties and beaus, class clowns and sure successes in a variety of professions.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
Perhaps after November after I prove up, I can think about beaus.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
After the winter months in this southwestern part of France, March normally sees a kind of human blossoming as people return to the sidewalks and terraces to celebrate the return of the beaux jours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary lists containing beau
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