maiden
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Healey, whose official title is chancellor of the exchequer, added that his maiden budget would see the government "maintaining fiscal discipline.. while giving businesses and families some breathing space".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Rocket Lab once again is delaying the maiden launch of its Neutron rocket, dealing a major blow to investors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
In 1968, he appeared in Alan Bennett's first West End play Forty Years On and was forced to adopt his mother's maiden name, as union rules prevented two actors from having the same name.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
On our maiden voyage in French Polynesia, we sailed to the lagoon of an island called Huahine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Don’t speak,” said Loki in the form of a maiden.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
Reviewing that production in The New York Times, Anna Kisselgoff praised Ms. Graves’s performance as the Queen of the Wilis, ghostly maidens who had died of broken hearts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 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
A housesitter must reckon with a pair of crones — or are they maidens?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
They knew every character and every line and had learned how to swoon like aristocratic maidens.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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