QUEENING (IT OVER) Synonyms: 9 Similar Words

queening (it over)

verb

present participle of queen (it over)

as in lording (it over)

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However, when one of the three women feels guilty about snubbing their lifelong pal, Mel shows up and suddenly the weekend turns to complete chaos, tempting the trio to break free from the madness that has hobbled their friend group for years.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Yet no one hauled him before Congress to answer for stoking racial tensions, snubbing George Washington, or making America sad on her birthday.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026

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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.

— Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The subtext to the litigation is Oakley’s personal grievance against Dolan, whom the ex-player has long criticized, in part for slighting him compared to other Knicks legends.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2025

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