wallflower
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Vanderbilt, the former SEC wallflower, just posted the first 10-win season in its history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
In 2019 Coughlan was cast as wallflower Penelope Featherington, the youngest daughter of a newly rich family during London's Regency era, in Bridgerton.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
Audiences rallied behind her relatable Toula Portokalos, a wallflower Chicago waitress who straightened both her hair and her spine despite the protests of her domineering family.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2023
I was always kind of in high school very much a wallflower, where I just was slightly outside of it and just watching, and probably through life I’m still that way.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
The dancing spread like a forest fire, and soon the floor was filled with couples who swayed and dipped around the Gibraltar of a wallflower, Ignatius.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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