maiden
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Root looked set to announce the beginning of his second spell as captain with a ton, while Cox was on course for a maiden hundred.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
MA thinks there’s a risk the market will be underwhelmed by a maiden study on the project, which is likely to be limited by an initial 1.8-million-metric-ton processing rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Woods, who competes using her maiden name Sophie Amy Grant, set off on July 4 in Trieste, Italy, and finished on the Mediterranean coast of Monaco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
More than eight years after Boeing organized the maiden flight of the 737 MAX 7, US authorities announced Monday that they certified the aircraft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Before they reached Nausicaä’s home, however, that discreet maiden directed Odysseus to fall back and let her and the girls go on alone.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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She conceded just 17 runs in her 10 overs, three of which were maidens and into the bargain accounted for four wickets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
She told Newsday afterward that the most difficult clue was in the third puzzle: “Greek festival maidens with baskets on their heads.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The rustic utopia would be a place where they could “bleach linens at the brook like the maidens of Homer’s ‘Iliad’!
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Only 5.3% of the complete overs bowled by Australia were maidens.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
They showed him great kindness: they welcomed him to their feast, and the maidens dancing to the sound of flute and lyre paused to get for him the gifts he sought.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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