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
The Halloween episode will be hosted by newly minted horror queen Inde Navarrette from the hit film “Obsession,” joined by musical guest Gracie Abrams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
On the second evening, the winners were dressed as characters from “Desperate Living,” complete with four men in leather attire carrying their friend, who was dressed like a queen on a litter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lifestyle influencer Nara Smith, the couture-clad queen of tradwives, really wishes people would stop calling her a tradwife.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
And here she is questioning me like she’s been appointed queen of all seventh-grade gossip.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
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 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
“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
These women carried themselves like queens, chins jutted out defiantly and eyes blazing with confidence, with power.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
When Stävoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With costly merchantry.
From The Red Flower Poems Written in War Time by Henry Van Dyke
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
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
But after that formal opening of the ball the young people had it all their own way, and the four queens queened it royally each with a flock of suitors around her.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Mary Dillon
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
Qxh7 picks off the piece while retaining control of the b1 queening square.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Physically queening it among her friends, psychically she was aloft and afloat in the exaltation that her bearing advertised.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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