dashing
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“Young Sherlock” star Dónal Finn plays Tom Hayward, a potential love interest for Mary, and Laurie Davidson plays the dashing William Ryder, who also catches Mary’s fancy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Actually, a lot of assets are dashing investors’ expectations regarding how they should behave during such a difficult period.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026
A lower court last year handed the veteran 57-year-old politician a five-year ban from public office over a fake jobs scam at the European Parliament, dashing her presidential ambitions.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
"He loves rollercoasters. He is a kind of a sensory seeker for movement and motion, so the speed and dashing around on rollercoasters is the most joyful thing in his life," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
The man was a dashing, handsome, storybook kind of man, dressed in jodhpurs and riding boots.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing dashing
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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