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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

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

Of course, Swift and her beau announced Tuesday, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

He’d gotten a tip Nicole Castro was meeting her new beau there at about four p.m.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

The director Sara Gunnarsdottir ruthlessly illustrates the gulf between the high schooler’s florid romanticism and her beaus, who are, mostly, a parade of creeps.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

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

I hadn’t seen a picture of her since she’d been in high school and now she was twenty-one and taught music and had lots of beaus.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

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

But Fanny spent time with her other beaux, and Charles had another love, too—beetles.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman




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