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beau

[boh] / boʊ /


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Separately, UK actor Hannah Waddingham is depicted next to her "NHS surgeon beau", who the paper says has got a "Hollywood makeover".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The accolades come just five days after Swift married beau Travis Kelce in an extravagant — yet secretive — Manhattan affair at Madison Square Garden.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Will’s beau idéal, Ronald Reagan, used it frequently on the rubber-chicken-and-peas circuit.

From Salon Dec. 20, 2025

Octavia, in which a gushing party girl falls instantly in love with a blond, sharp-cheeked beau called Jeremy, later became an ITV series.

From BBC Oct. 6, 2025

Miss Quentin and her beau in the swing yonder.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

This is a huge limitation, as Flock has been used by officers to track not just exes but the new beaus with whom they have moved on.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

As fate would have it, all that time spent researching how bats find their beaus may have led to another pairing.

From National Geographic Feb. 14, 2024

Shortly afterward, the two were out and about on a double date with their beaus.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2023

To fight back, he started giving in-person architecture tours — in Kyiv and elsewhere — with hopes of convincing more people that his brutalist beaus are worth keeping.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

I hadn’t seen a picture of her since she’d been in high school and now she was twenty-one and taught music and had lots of beaus.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

The entire family showed up, including Kylie Jenner in a white ballgown with a matching hat and big sister Kourtney Kardashian in deconstructed Thom Browne to go with beaux Travis Barker’s Thom Browne suit.

From Washington Times May 3, 2022

After climbing a dusty marble staircase, visitors are ushered into a parlor dimly lit by a beaux arts chandelier where workers tramp in and out carrying glasses of steaming tea.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2019

Or was she, as I’d rather think, cutting up her cardboard beaux in her mind even as she created them, and laughing at her public as much as at her characters?

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2017

The book, as it stands, feels ominously loveless, more hospitable to dolts than to eligible beaux, yet at least seven writers have sought to flesh it out and, in so doing, to warm it up.

From The New Yorker Mar. 5, 2017

By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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