as in queen
an attractive woman
Every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen.
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Recent Examples of beauty queen
Born in Mississippi in 1954, Oprah Winfrey was a teen beauty queen who became a local TV reporter in Nashville, and then an anchor in Baltimore.
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Jane Pauley, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
Clooney and Zeidler's mother was a beauty queen–turned–city councilwoman, while their father worked as a news anchor.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
In an annual update, the Boulder Police Department urged anyone with information to come forward about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old child beauty queen in her childhood home.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Clooney is the son of TV journalist Nick Clooney and former beauty queen Nina Bruce Warren.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
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Jane Pauley, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
Clooney and Zeidler's mother was a beauty queen–turned–city councilwoman, while their father worked as a news anchor.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2025
In an annual update, the Boulder Police Department urged anyone with information to come forward about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old child beauty queen in her childhood home.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Clooney is the son of TV journalist Nick Clooney and former beauty queen Nina Bruce Warren.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beauty queen
Noun
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Famous for her affection towards corgis, the future queen cuddled a Pembroke Welsh corgi in April 1940.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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Adria Arjona recently joined the cast as Maxima, an alien queen who has been both an antagonist and a potential love interest for Superman in the comics.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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While Pelusium is named after the god Pelusius, little is known about the deity beyond his mention in Greek-Roman philosopher Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris as a child linked to the goddess.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Superbloom Tour will be filled with celebration, dancing, theatre, cowboys and goddesses and of course a LOT of singing.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
15 Apr. 2026
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With more than ninety works, the galleries are thronged with beauties, many of whom refuse to be pinned down to a gender.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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And a prior production at Court Theatre made much more of the beauty of the changing of campus seasons, one of the ways Auburn gets at the nourishing pleasures of an academic life.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beauty%20queen. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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