queen
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With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
In this tale of an imprisoned queen, her supposedly dead husband, and her struggle against a usurper, brilliantly characterized arias succeed each other like jewels, ratcheting up the emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
In another, a female is dubbed "the queen of the town" as she is caught on camera in the sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
YouTube page in March featuring a special edition in which drag queen Monét X Change, singer Rebecca Black and comedian Brennan Lee Mulligan competed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
I pulled at Nothing and we turned down a road that led away from the crowds, and the king and queen, and Kessler.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In eusocial colonies, reproduction is divided between queens and workers, creating highly cooperative societies with specialized roles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 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
Dione Frost was up until 03:00 preparing the event and now drag queens entertain the crowd as Christina Aguilera's Lady Marmalade blasts from the speakers.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
“We’ll be kings and queens, Inej. Kings and queens.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
If once I had patronized Ellen, it was her turn now, and she queened it over me ruthlessly.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
Restored to society and Harley, Anne queened it royally.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
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
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
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
Black’s bishop pair and passed queenside pawns make the win more difficult, but Short navigates the tactical shoals to bring home the point while keeping the Black b-pawn from queening.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
It is only in trembling that any human soul can see one they love uplifted to such a height of extravagant joy as that on which Prue now sits queening it over the workaday world.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
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