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Recent Examples of senoritaLove the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Dec. 2019 Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.—SI.com, 6 June 2019 The cakes are filled with margarita butter cream and covered with vanilla butter cream and decorated like a pretty Mexican senorita’s skirt.—Erica Boniface, The Know, 2 May 2017
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
After two seasons of Peter chasing around Rose Larkin, Isabel proves to be more than a distressed damsel, solidifying journalism’s crucial place in holding power accountable and aiding governmental investigations at large.
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Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
19 Feb. 2026
But the damsel isn’t in distress, the monster isn’t so bad, and some raunchy jokes may go over kids’ heads (but will likely delight parents).
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Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Dec. 2025
The court maidens this year are Kennedy Kuntz and Sidney Hoover.
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Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
The track also announced an increase in the purses for special weight 2-year-old maiden races to $100,000, putting the track on par with similar events run at Kentucky and New York tracks.
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Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
The most recent season featured Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) falling for maid and illegitimate child of nobility Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) over the course of eight very Cinderella-esque episodes.
The show follows Wiig’s wannabe patrician Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, who is hell-bent on becoming the belle of 1960’s Palm Beach by elbowing her way into the upper echelons of Florida’s most exclusive beach club, the Palm Royale.
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Jack Dunn,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
In a market with a ton of teams with money to spend and not an abundance of high-level talent to spend it on, the no-frills Linderbaum could soon become the belle of the free-agent ball.