duchess

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Recent Examples of duchess Meghan attended the show to support Piccioli, who was recently tapped to become the creative director for the House of Balenciaga, the duchess's office told USA TODAY. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025 In a statement shared with The Guardian, a spokesperson for Ferguson said the duchess felt compelled to send the email after Epstein allegedly threatened to sue her for defamation over her comments to the Standard. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025 On Monday, at least five charities said the duchess could no longer continue as one of their patrons. Reuters, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025 All of them thanked the duchess for her past support. Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for duchess
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duchess
Noun
  • In 2015, Girls actress Allison Williams traversed the New York City subway system dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991), looking uncannily similar to the princess.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As the two start to fall for each other, things get complicated when Huntley discovers Victoria is a princess.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Life hasn't always been a cabaret for the former countess.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Neither Oh’s dizzy countess nor Nyong’o’s charming, feckless Viola ever takes the reins of this production, but that would be hard to do.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All of these prices reflect standard/queen sizes, however, the options in this guide come in king sizes too.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Like bees, wasps, and other ants, carpenter ants are social and live in a colony with a single queen and thousands of workers.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Marjorie Paget, marchioness of Anglesey, wore the necklace to the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Multiple media outlets begin to publish explainers on the marchioness, but not all of them mention the affair rumors.
    Ellie Hall, Vulture, 9 July 2024
Noun
  • Ever wanted to be a baron or a baroness?
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Redford plays Denys, a big game hunter in Out of Africa, while Streep plays Karen, a baroness.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Another shot features a close-up of Gomez's simple bouquet of white flowers, while another highlights her dazzling wedding bands, including the marquise diamond engagement ring Blanco proposed to her with in December 2024.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the second photo, Gomez rests her left hand on her new husband's, her marquise diamond engagement ring glinting in the light.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Bridgerton viscountess is set to star in yet another love story, this time as a woman whose life is turned upside down by an upcoming wedding and the return of a former flame.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Season 2 will follow Quinn's second book, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and the quest of the eldest Bridgerton, Anthony, to find his viscountess.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
Noun
  • Social status and fashion conspired to make gentlewomen’s footwear of every sort flimsy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The novelists’ parents were Patrick and Maria Brontë, an Irish clergyman and a Cornish gentlewoman who married in 1812.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025

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