queen
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Supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum confirmed her position as the queen of Halloween by transforming into a giant, bloodied and severed hand for her annual costume party in New York.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Elizabeth Debicki’s town queen bee, for example, went from being known as Doctor’s Daughter when she was a child to Tailor’s Wife after she got married.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
"So anything like that is amazing. I know that Amelia's been sharing a room with Jasmin Strange all week - who's a social media queen - so she's actually outdone Jasmin this time."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Sporting knee-high boots and her platinum tresses loose, the 68-year-old pop queen sang "Bring Your Love" alongside Sabrina Carpenter before medleying with Charli XCX for "Danceteria."
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The fairy queen turned her white eyes on him, making him regret asking.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
David Starkey’s account of Henry VIII’s reign takes us, day by day, from Greenwich and Westminster to Hampton Court, alongside Henry and his successive queens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
With a fanbase that included grandmas and Gen-Zers, Republicans and Democrats, drag queens and evangelicals, Parton was a kind of unicorn in America's polarised society.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Animated frescoes arrange and rearrange into different celestial scenes: the gods and goddesses, an everlasting rose, the kings and queens of old, the islands of Orléans, the heavens.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
K-Kt2 and draw, as Black has to give up the rook, and the RP cannot be queened, the Black bishop having no power on the White diagonal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
But while she was with the Morels she queened it.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
She still queened it over her own household; she alone still had the delightful task of making a man comfortable.
From Half Portions by Edna Ferber
But she herself queened it easily over the bizarre possessions now become hers.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
Black can’t be stopped from finally queening the charmed a-pawn, and White resigns the final position as mate is in the offing on 79.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Ng7, and Black had to resign as the pawn has a clear path to the queening square after the queen checks run out.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
There would have been no Elton John, queening in front of millions, or David Bowie, who freely credited Little Richard’s inspiration.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
See how she is queening it in General Tryron's fine mansion.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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