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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 | [email protected], 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
Oh Outlander fam, for old times’ sake, let’s get in one last sing me a song of a lass that is gone, say could that lass be I?
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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.
This gender flipped, damsel-in-distress scenario continues to play out for Veska is no ordinary woman.
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Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
22 May 2026
Yes, many of these bugs, such as the damsel bug and lacewing, prey on pests like aphids and caterpillars, helping to maintain a healthy garden ecosystem.
Across two stints, Magnussen made 185 starts in Formula One and raced for McLaren, Renault and Haas, recording a career-best runner-up finish in the 2014 Australian Grand Prix — his maiden start in F1.
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Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Many fans thought the original covers of Pratchett’s novels went too heavy on busty maidens and strapping men with big swords, undermining their literary merit, and a similar problem has beset the various screen adaptations from Sky and the BBC.
The love story of Kadeem Hardison’s Dwayne Wayne, a Blerd in flip-up glasses, and the Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy), a wealthy Southern belle, still tracks decades after the show signed off in 1993.
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Ronda Racha Penrice,
VIBE.com,
4 June 2026
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.