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lady

[lay-dee] / ˈleɪ di /




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Former first lady Michelle Obama launched a “Voting Squad” made up of popular content creators to try to encourage young people to get to the polls.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

"For him it was just like a chat to a lady, you know, just the innocence of it," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Butterfly Conservation said the painted lady was one of the standout species with 6,955 recorded in Devon and 6,033 in Cornwall.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Documentary director Brett Ratner chases the aloof first lady from SUVs to private planes in a profile loaded with B-roll but lacking an A-story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

At the close of one of these talks, a slender, aristocratic lady came up to me.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Examples of Mr. Iñárritu’s underwhelming-to-inert sense of humor include having the men move their heads in unison and object to a derogatory term for women because there are ladies present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Painted ladies undertake one of the world's most remarkable insect migrations, travelling from Africa to the UK over several generations, crossing the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It was what the data said,” Volsche says, noting that the only segment in their research that truly found cat dads as more desirable were, well, cat ladies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

We bought pie from church ladies, high-school clubs, a state-fair blue-ribbon winner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

“The way royal ladies are expected to dress is terribly inconvenient,” she thought, once she had changed into this warmer and far more comfortable uniform.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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