queen
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"Claudiapatra!" gasped model and actress Jerry Hall - spotting similarities in both grandeur and hairstyles between Claudia and Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But Swift struck out in some of the show's biggest categories, including Artist of the Year, which went to the queen of pop, Madonna.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Viewers of Tudor period dramas will know Elizabeth I as history’s dressiest queen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t the only scream queen around here,” Hargitay quipped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The animal’s arc sent him right over May’s head, though, and straight for the fairy queen....
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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
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
Almost 100 queens have lip-synced their way through Drag Race UK's challenges, but there are fans who worry whether the British scene can support more series of the annual show.
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
Under the canopy there rode four middle-aged queens on white mules, looting picturesque.
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 who had queened it with the best of them; she who was the widow of a man who had killed himself to escape from prison!
From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann
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
There she queened it, with her General as loyal henchman, and Marshall Wace as a professor of drawing-room talents of most varied sort.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
She still queened it over her own household; she alone still had the delightful task of making a man comfortable.
From Half Portions by Edna Ferber
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
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
There would have been no Elton John, queening in front of millions, or David Bowie, who freely credited Little Richard’s inspiration.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
Obviously White has to lose the game, not being able to prevent the pawns from queening.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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