mistress

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“Rebecca was still mistress of Manderley,” the narrator worries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Keaton plays that mistress, Mary Wilkie, and her depiction of the witty, wry, journalist with a robust social calendar and strong opinions that she never hesitates to express, is among her most seminal performances.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025

After two-and-a-half hours, the show ends with Gaga announcing she has defeated the "mistress of mayhem".

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

At least Harold Macmillan understood, to use the parlance of his time, that history was a cruel mistress and was sure to leave him behind.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2025

Iluminada has now crept forward to the edge of the circle to offer the matches to her mistress.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez