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as in maiden

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Recent Examples of ex This Sunday on 60 Minutes, Patrick Clancy talks about his grief, his memories of his children, and the baseless conspiracy theories that flooded social media since his ex-wife's murder trial. — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 On top of the dead ex-agent and the lapses in payroll, Lamb accuses Diana of sending a real-estate man to look at his office. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026 As an ex-convict, Decker can’t carry a gun and lives alone in a beat-up Florida trailer park. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 The conferences planned strict penalties against schools and coaches if anyone rostered an ex-signee. — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ex

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Noun

This second tale unfolds in an isolated cabin in the 1950s, as a lonely man on death’s door, Tom (Nick Nolte), a father in wait for his estranged daughter, finds an unconscious maiden, Alice (Caylee Cowan), outside in the snow.

— Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Both were wins, a maiden-breaking score at seven furlongs (3/4 of a mile) at Churchill Downs on June 7, 2026 and a valiant win by a neck in the mile and a sixteenth Indiana Derby on July 11.

— Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of maiden

Noun

The film, directed by May el-Toukhy, is set in Denmark in the aftermath of World War II, as a maid prepares to marry her former employer.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

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In 1979, Rosenthal earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the U-M in Ann Arbor.

— Sheryl Lee, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Chaudhari is a nursing student and plans to transfer to the University of Illinois Chicago to obtain her bachelor’s degree.

— Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

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At age 37, Abby was considered a spinster, and her social class was well below that of her husband.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
After deliberating for just over an hour, the all-male, white, Protestant jury unanimously decided that 32-year-old spinster Borden didn’t commit a brazen daytime double homicide.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026

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