prima donna

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Recent Examples of prima donna In this life-force of a musical, even the help gets to shine like so many sequins on a prima donna’s finery. Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024 Fitzgerald wondered if teammates looked at him as a prima donna. Doug Haller, The Athletic, 29 July 2024 As a portrait of an artist as a prima donna, a pioneer and, yes, a bona fide genius, the movie is still worth its weight in wire hangers. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024 Knicks, please don’t trade away scrappy players for prima donnas like Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, etc. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for prima donna 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prima donna
Noun
  • Looking at all K-pop musical figures, the number of names that have landed somewhere on the Adult Contemporary radio ranking doubles.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In Game 1, Kahnle surrendered an eighth-inning double to Shohei Ohtani that turned into the game-tying run.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Each cheese stick’s plastic wrapper is emblazoned with a Disney princess.
    Judy Holmes, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This princess girls dress, $34.99 on Amazon, is available in sizes three to 14 years.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
  • 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
Noun
  • All while his admittedly gorgeous leading lady plays a cryptic symbol?
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • With the success of the film largely dependent on how well Holt and Gooding clicked with one another, the latter made a point to bond with his leading lady by any means necessary.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Nye took the runway in a navy blue bomber jacket patterned with Greek gods and goddesses as well as a pair of black shorts that hit above the knee.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses.
    Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As a force-of-nature newcomer vying for a big-screen break, Margot Robbie is all frantic energy, while Brad Pitt deploys his star wattage to great effect playing a famous leading man just cresting the peak of his career and starting on the way down.
    Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Neymar had served his time at the Camp Nou, was more than justified in wanting to be the leading man rather than a supporting actor.
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the objections have come from walk-on football players, who aren’t eligible for payments, and athletes in small sports who are receiving very small payments.
    Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Toward the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosé, the far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a pair of recent smashes, but who clearly want some of this refracted salaciousness for themselves.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Prima donna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prima%20donna. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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