mistress
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"You chose to take your final flight in my arms on the evening of May 14, to join your mistress who loved you so much," she said.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.
From Salon • May 13, 2026
“Rebecca was still mistress of Manderley,” the narrator worries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
After two-and-a-half hours, the show ends with Gaga announcing she has defeated the "mistress of mayhem".
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
Lazlo knew the name already: goddess of oblivion, mistress of forgetting.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing mistress
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Excerpt 3)
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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