dame
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A quick search through social media tells you that the 85-year-old is "a pioneer", "brilliant" and the "grand dame of autism research".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The “grand dame diva of culture, divahood and porcine glamour” Miss Piggy, was honored at the show, where she showed up, naturally, in a pink dress and feather boa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Twila is, in Hollywood parlance, a “firecracker” — you know, the tough-talking dame who inevitably nurses a wounded heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
The pair said becoming a dame and a sir respectively was "wonderful and humbling at the same time".
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
“It’s very film noir. All we need is a fog machine and a dame with a gun and checkered past.”
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Mattie Ross is one of the toughest dames in American literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Movies: Olivier’s widow could be playing grand dames on stage, but she likes the travel and money from matriarchal characters in films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The Queen was joined at the event by a dozen dames including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Penelope Keith.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024
Dad thought it was great that I was writing a weekly column about, as he put it, the skinny dames and the fat cats.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
