queen
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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
“Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t the only scream queen around here,” Hargitay quipped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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
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
“You know,” said the queen, “I was born in this palace, but I still get mixed up.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
The queens this year will be hoping to spark more interest into the show and drag, including Paris Baby, who describes herself as "UK's British Bajan Barbie".
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
"In our study, pesticides began to accumulate in queens over time, suggesting that worker filtration capacity can be overwhelmed," Encerrado-Manriquez said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
“You’re playing the great game of kings and princes, of queens and crowns, aren’t you? Of course it matters. Everything matters.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
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
Imagination conjured up scenes in the summer garden where the gay pretty girl had held her little court, and queened it over the grave, silent man.
From The Lady of the Basement Flat by Elizabeth Earnshaw
The one, in the richness of her splendour, gazed upon the close place where she queened it, and was satisfied with the beauty round her, or, if not satisfied, she could imagine none different.
From Dawn by Henry Rider Haggard
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
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
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
Bb6!, and now the White a-pawn has a clear path to the queening square.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
She rather fancied the picture of herself, clothed in more or less authority and queening it over her little army of teachers.
From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick
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