lady
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Happily, there’s a solution for their plight—one that leaves a lucky old lady with a collection of better-than-average lawn ornaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Careful with your language,” replies the lady from child-protection services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sri Lanka's former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa has been arrested over allegations that a charity she is linked to misused donations raised for a children's hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
That response evoked for me Gertrude’s remark in “Hamlet” that “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” but so be it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
No one knew he was in love, but he was...so secretly, it seems, that even the lady herself didn't know he liked her!
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Her co-star Grant was known for being very demanding of his leading ladies.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Its members included senior pastors, first ladies, evangelists, and other women with constituencies of their own that travel far in a state like Michigan.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Examples of Mr. Iñárritu’s underwhelming-to-inert sense of humor include having the men move their heads in unison and object to a derogatory term for women because there are ladies present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“It was what the data said,” Volsche says, noting that the only segment in their research that truly found cat dads as more desirable were, well, cat ladies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Now I’ll go have tea with the other Turkish ladies, and you can rest, my dear niece. I’m sure you’re tired.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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