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The performing artists previously announced for the May 17 show are current Variety cover gal Kacey Musgraves, Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Cody Johnson, Little Big Town and Riley Green.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
1 May 2026 -
With shoes and swimwear, activewear and accessories, and all the coveted dresses, sweaters, and jeans in between, Free People offers trendy threads for fashion-forward gals on the go who love a touch of whimsy.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Apr. 2026
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But the specific French dispensation—the idea that a man’s erotic life exists outside the moral world of his other obligations, that the wife and the mistress are a civilized arrangement, that desire is sovereign—this mythology did not make the crossing with me, or did not survive it intact.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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It was inspired by a real-life account of a French diplomat who has a Chinese mistress for 20 years, seemingly unaware that his paramour is actually a man, and a Communist spy.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Exactly one year after nipping Marist in the state finals at Duluth’s Cecil Morris Field, the Blessed Trinity Titans did it again in an identical manner, edging Marist 1-0 in the GHSA Class 4A girls’ soccer state championship game on Friday night.—
Jeff Gable,
AJC.com,
16 May 2026
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And for boys and girls, the shoe options will pull from skate- and surf-inspired influences, while delivering toughness and comfort for active, creative lives.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
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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?—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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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.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
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While the wife embraces their animatronic offspring, her husband keeps a wary distance, unconvinced that the android has any connection to their boy.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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Cartersville’s boys and Harris County’s girls won their first state championships in track and field Monday at Georgia’s Spec Towns Track in Athens.—
Todd Holcomb,
AJC.com,
12 May 2026
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She was widely known as one of Hugh Hefner’s main girlfriends from about 2001 to 2008.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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Luo then allegedly went on to contact Edens’ girlfriend at the time, who is now his wife, and his ex-wife with incriminating information regarding their relationship, per the WSJ, citing prosecutors.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
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Platter remained seemingly unseduced, although, as a talented lutist, he was once recruited to serenade another man’s inamorata for a full ninety minutes.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Sebastian’s inamorata, Ellie (Leslie Bibb), is the only daughter of hotel magnate William Collins XII (David Rasche) and his US senator wife, Tigger (Kim Cattrall); and, yes, Tigger is her government name.—
Odie Henderson,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 May 2023
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While on vacation in Tokyo with her kids and new beau Lewis Hamilton, Kardashian snapped a goofy selfie with her baby boy.—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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Lothar’s hackles were raised when Silvia’s beau made antisemitic remarks—and mentioned that his father, Ricardo Klement, had served under Adolf Hitler.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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“Tootsie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tootsie. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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