as in queen
a lovely woman
every loving husband considers his wife a beauty queen
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Recent Examples of beauty queen
As depicted in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, José, attending Southern Illinois University on a swimming scholarship, met blond beauty queen Mary Louise Andersen, a lively communications major two years his senior who everyone called Kitty.
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Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2025
The kindergartner was following the footsteps of her beauty queen mother, Patsy, a former Miss West Virginia, frequently participating in child pageants.
—Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Even by big-city standards, the grisly shotgun murders of former beauty queen Kitty, 47, and wealthy music executive Jose, 45, as the couple watched TV in their Beverly Hills home in August of 1989 was a shocking crime.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2025
The kindergartner was following the footsteps of her beauty queen mother, Patsy, a former Miss West Virginia, frequently participating in child pageants.
—Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
But a decades-old case of small-town beauty queen murders might cost them their lives.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Even by big-city standards, the grisly shotgun murders of former beauty queen Kitty, 47, and wealthy music executive Jose, 45, as the couple watched TV in their Beverly Hills home in August of 1989 was a shocking crime.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beauty queen
Noun
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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The piece is part of Vasconcelos’s Valkyries series, named after Norse female war goddesses, paying homage to inspiring women.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Emilia is now in her second outfit for the photo shoot and looks like a glistening goddess dressed in baggy jeans with gold glitter, a gold bustier and matching gold heels, posing for a second round of photos as a fan blows her wavy locks and her entourage hypes her up.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
26 Feb. 2025
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Next, there is a snap of a photo strip from an event for the beauty brand AppleDoll that shows the Jurassic World star posing with a product.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Pausing to notice the beauty requires only a simple shift, and the payoff is a more positive mood.—
Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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The collection, which officially launches in the spring of 2025, includes raspberry jam (of course), wildflower honey, herbal teas, crepe mix, and shortbread cookies.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
4 Mar. 2025
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The My Weigh scale boasts a 15.4-pound weight capacity, which is essential when making large batches of bread, cookie dough and other baked goods.—
Kayleigh Drake,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Beauty queen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beauty%20queen. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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