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queen

[kween] / kwin /




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Sporting knee-high boots and her platinum tresses loose, the 68-year-old pop queen sang "Bring Your Love" alongside Sabrina Carpenter before medleying with Charli XCX for "Danceteria."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

In other words, the kind of behavior that befits a queen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t the only scream queen around here,” Hargitay quipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Lifestyle influencer Nara Smith, the couture-clad queen of tradwives, really wishes people would stop calling her a tradwife.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

I was holding a dozen crying babies and trying to spin a mountain of straw into gold while Opal screamed at me to hurry up because she’s the queen.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

David Starkey’s account of Henry VIII’s reign takes us, day by day, from Greenwich and Westminster to Hampton Court, alongside Henry and his successive queens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I found drag through queens who had featured in the American franchise," the 26-year-old says.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Now, with no queens or kings, it had grown wild, a forest of huge trees laced with dragon-flowers and firelocks and bushes of orchids.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

K-Kt2 and draw, as Black has to give up the rook, and the RP cannot be queened, the Black bishop having no power on the White diagonal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Restored to society and Harley, Anne queened it royally.

From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang

Wen Ho, the silent and inscrutable, went out of the valley for provisions, and during his absence Joan queened it in the kitchen.

From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

Frank was born, and then Sybil, and the Maryland beauty queened it in an elegant and secluded little home.

From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch

Kxg2 b5!, and White resigns as he has no pawn on b2 to stop Black’s a-pawn from queening after 49. axb5 a4.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Ng7, and Black resigned because there is no good way to prevent the White e-pawn from queening after his own queen checks run out.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Qxh7 picks off the piece while retaining control of the b1 queening square.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

Bb6!, and now the White a-pawn has a clear path to the queening square.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

Charles was already in St. James's, and the ladies were already queening it in the new Court over the renegade beauties of the old one.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough




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