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Middlesex secured their maiden One Day Cup title while Glamorgan were denied the perfect farewell to tier-two cricket in their final match before turning professional.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Dawson finished with 3-32 and Jamie Overton 2-23, while Sonny Baker impressed again with his pace and control in a miserly spell of 1-15, including a wicket maiden in the 19th over.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

And in Barcelona this year, Lewis Hamilton's maiden Ferrari victory was helped by a VSC that gave him a cheap pit stop on a different tyre strategy from rivals Mercedes.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The key stories of the maiden Madring race were:

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

My gaze tracks up the arm until I see that I am being held by the ship’s figurehead—a wooden maiden carved into the bow, beneath the bowsprit pole.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026

She conceded just 17 runs in her 10 overs, three of which were maidens and into the bargain accounted for four wickets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Reviewing that production in The New York Times, Anna Kisselgoff praised Ms. Graves’s performance as the Queen of the Wilis, ghostly maidens who had died of broken hearts.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

A housesitter must reckon with a pair of crones — or are they maidens?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

Drops of water fell from the mist and out of them there were formed the frost maidens and Ymir, the first Giant.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton