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Recent Examples of lady My meet and greets [will be] ladies only. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025 That meant ladies could smile and wave with their makeup intact and gentlemen were comfortable in their suit jackets. Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025 Levi’s happens to make the best baggy jeans, in my opinion, with an inseam long enough for tall ladies that doesn’t awkwardly crop before reaching the heel. Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025 What’s interesting about the Miami ladies is that the cast members are actually friends and hang out all the time. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lady
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Noun
  • As fans scramble to catch the ball, footage shows, the ball appears to land one row in front of a woman while a man runs over and grabs it.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez follows the titular Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón), who seeks a fresh start — and a new identity as a woman — with the help of a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña, in her Oscar-winning role).
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Goldenberg, who is based in Cleveland, had initially picked up the extra job a few years ago to help pay down the massive student debt he and his wife, a family doctor, had accumulated during medical school.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In 1944, Jimmie McKee and his wife, Minnie, bought the seven-room, two-story house in Washington Heights.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In a similar vein (pun intended), the 16th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory was rumored to have bathed in the blood of young girls to preserve her youth.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Sheen is the father (with high school girlfriend Paula Profit) of Cassandra, 40; Sami, 21, and Lola, 20 (with Richards); twins Max and Bob, 16 (with Mueller).
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Following up that success, A24 has unveiled a new trailer for the film, out in theaters October 3, which also stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s girlfriend and eventual wife Dawn Staples.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The females wait folded within crevices in bark.
    Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Mating season is February to April, and females will lay one or two eggs per day intermittently during that period.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Transport yourself back in time to the days where kings and queens ruled, and see over 100 daily shows.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Though most monarchs live their entire lives in castles and palaces, the late queen was not born expecting to ascend to the throne.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical Roald Dahl's beloved 1988 novel about a young girl named Matilda with telekinetic powers has gotten its fair share of adaptations over the years.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The Loveland FoundationProvides financial assistance to Black women and girls seeking therapy.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In its place, consider more stately materials like tulle or duchess satin and crepe de chine.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Markle launched a brand called American Riviera Orchard via Instagram on March 14, 2024 with a short video that showed the duchess arranging flowers, baking and standing in a stone walkway wearing a floor-length gown.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025

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“Lady.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lady. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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