queen
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The existence of Oyo's son was first publicly revealed in the days after the king's death by President Museveni, who said he had been told about the young boy by the queen mother.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Lagertha, whose name comes from a Viking queen, can now be seen with Masaya and four other monkeys at Chester Zoo.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
London-based queen and fellow contestant Flesh agrees she is "100% Generation Ru".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Growing up she was skinny brow queen with big curly hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Aztec queen, Tonantzin, Holy Mother of all mankind, lend me your magical assistance!”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
The show sees drag queens compete in a series of challenges to impress judges RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, and often features big name celebrity guest judges.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
A new batch of queens from across the UK are set to battle it out in the hope of hearing RuPaul's magical words: "Condragulations, you're a winner, baby".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“All those drag queens, sometimes I see some of them look more like me than I do,” said the star, who famously lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Worker bees normally feed and care for both queens and developing larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
They lined up on either side of the door, and the magic queens came in behind them, all dressed in their best clothes.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
She had a salon, something very distinguished; a social centre in which she queened it with great splendour.
From Tales Of Hearsay by Joseph Conrad
"The bonnie little Republican," as he called her, queened it over the dominie from the first hour of their acquaintance.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"But have I not already promised?" she protested, with a gentle uplift of her head inexpressibly touching in one who had once queened it over hearts so merrily.
From The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green
But since then this Dame Woodville, whom I queened, if her husband mismated, must dispute this royaulme with mine and me!
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
Rxc5 Rxf3, when’s Sorokin’s pieces cover each other magnificently and the passed d-pawn nears the queening square.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
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 had to resign as the pawn has a clear path to the queening square after the queen checks run out.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
Over the two at her feet she was openingly queening it already; over the others—what did Wych Hazel see concerning them, that curled her lips in their soft lines of mischief?
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
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