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queen

[kween] / kwin /




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Shortly after that, Parton became one of America’s most cherished stars and the queen of holiday specials long before Mariah Carey laid claim to Christmas.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

"I felt that was very relatable as a drag queen and so I took that book up there to testify," Bandit told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Dolly was colorful and vivacious and unapologetic, and had more than a bit of drag queen in her.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

I guess being a queen and a mother makes you worried and tired—not to mention the added worry of your baby being taken away.

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

With a fanbase that included grandmas and Gen-Zers, Republicans and Democrats, drag queens and evangelicals, Parton was a kind of unicorn in America's polarised society.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

So far this year, 205 Asian hornet queens have been caught and nine primary nests destroyed across Guernsey and Herm.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The fire on stage for Day 2 of the fest started early by a pack of drag queens led by Peaches Christ.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

It lived in the queens who could read a face from across the room, the regulars who noticed an absence and the staff who could feel the room change before anyone else did.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

That night the house was full of light and noise, with people dressed as soldiers and queens and dancers and chieftains.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

From Washington Times Nov. 8, 2022

In the majority of games, either one or the other player remains at the close with a pawn, which has to be queened.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann

The careless young wife, knowing nothing save how to love, queened it right royally over the old house, and the little brown brothers and sisters ran riot through every room.

From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Once I had been sick and queened it over them for a while, now all of us strained ourselves trying to wait on Shelley; but she wouldn't have it.

From Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter

I counted up five, six, ten different tones of shadow at different heights on the mountain slopes, and over all this realm of varied silence the moon queened it pensively.

From Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Constance Garnett

Black can’t be stopped from finally queening the charmed a-pawn, and White resigns the final position as mate is in the offing on 79.

From Washington Times Nov. 28, 2023

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

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

From Washington Times Aug. 10, 2021

Kinging and queening themselves in spite of everything!

From When a Cobbler Ruled a King by Augusta Huiell Seaman




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