houri

noun

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as in goddess

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  1. goddess
  2. queen
  3. eyeful
  4. beauty
  5. looker
  6. fox
  7. doll
  8. honey
Noun
  • The other actor whose presence deeply impacted the production, Nolan reports, is Samantha Morton, mesmerizing as Circe, the goddess who changes Odysseus’ men into swine.
    — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Nolan singled out Samantha Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead), who plays the goddess Circe, despite her relatively brief screen time.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
Definition of goddess
Noun
  • The queen, 78, brought her younger sister Annabel Elliott, 77, to day 10 of the tennis championships on Wednesday, July 8, as Britain battled another intense heatwave, with temperatures expecting to climb to 91°F in London.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • What do an entertaining queen, a pop legend, and a supermodel have in common?
    — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Definition of queen
Noun
  • Wrestler Roddy Piper went off the mat for his first major acting gig as a Los Angeles guy who picks up those shades and gets eyefuls of aliens amongst him — all of whom hold the real power in our corrupt world.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • One memorable member of the Dunder Mifflin crew tells EW that viewers *do not* need to get an eyeful of him for one specific reason.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
Definition of eyeful
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  • People are shopping for clothing and beauty products at a Zudio store in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, on April 4, 2024.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • First was an anti-aging and beauty-focused treatment that combined 20 minutes in a relaxingly warm red light bed with a Japanese Microbiome and Fermented Enzyme Facial.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
Definition of beauty
Noun
  • The analysis examined how many lookers pursued both living options across 50 large metropolitan areas, as well as a national benchmark.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • One was a real looker but not keen to enter some charade with Jed, whose big smile put her off.
    — Thomas McGuane, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of looker
Noun
  • Now, a scenic oceanfront property with public hiking trails, bobcats, foxes and sweeping views of the San Mateo coast, Farallon Islands and the Marin Headlands could become part of the national park system.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
  • And the hare did not have that specific goal before the fox appeared.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026
Definition of fox
Noun
  • There’s no way the doll monsters at the pond were the whole point of the Lake of Tears, right?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • The brand has seen its fair share of criticism in regards to doll diversity.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of doll
Noun
  • The film also documented other items in his diet like raw honey, sea bass, asparagus and egg fried rice.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The six-foot four-inch footballer eats roughly 6,000 calories per day, consuming lots of whole foods such as steak, fish, eggs, raw milk and honey, according to his YouTube videos.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of honey
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