queen
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“Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t the only scream queen around here,” Hargitay quipped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Lifestyle influencer Nara Smith, the couture-clad queen of tradwives, really wishes people would stop calling her a tradwife.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
If a new queen survives until her first brood emerges as adult workers, though, then the odds are in her favour as she no longer needs to undertake risky foraging.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
One fan said they loved hearing the "queen of Wales sounding Welsh".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
I was bien águila, the queen of ruse.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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"It's a lot of effort to go on Drag Race, a lot of investment and emotional labour," they added, "so I hope the audience follows and keeps supporting the queens."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Series eight's youngest contestant, Naya Thorn, who was 23 when she was chosen for the show, feels there are new queens cropping up all over the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
When honeybee queens are exposed to pesticides over time, some of those chemicals can accumulate in their bodies and then be transferred into their eggs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
For kings and queens and very important people.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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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
But while she was with the Morels she queened it.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
She queened it over demesnes of sprite-like revelry; the life they led was sylvan; at their fêtes the sun assisted.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various
Always Una St. Clair had queened it over the boys, teased them, petted them, scolded them.
From The Northern Iron by George A. Birmingham
But she herself queened it easily over the bizarre possessions now become hers.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
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
Black’s bishop pair and passed queenside pawns make the win more difficult, but Short navigates the tactical shoals to bring home the point while keeping the Black b-pawn from queening.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Bb6!, and now the White a-pawn has a clear path to the queening square.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 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
I shall not see, that sing, I shall not see the hour of thy queening!
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps