dame
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Leading computer scientist Professor dame Wendy Hall, who has advised the UN about AI, says the current crisis is all about the companies not behaving responsibly enough.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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
Labour MP Jessica Morden is made a dame for her political service and former Tory MP Greg Hands is knighted for the same reason.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She was made a dame in 2009, and has also acted as a senior adviser to the British government and the United Nations on artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
“Just the dame school. For the younger children, in the summer months. With you to help me I can take more pupils.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
“Of course it’s daunting to be following in the footsteps of Prue Leith and Mary Berry before her, great dames both, but I’m also bubbling with excitement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Until her death last year, Helen Vendler was one of the grandes dames of American letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The grandes dames of British theatre reminisced about their lives and careers, with searing honesty and humility.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
I was transported to a world where men wore shiny shoes, kids tap-danced, and ladies were called dames.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
