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Recent Examples of senorita
Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senorita
Noun
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There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Besides providing for her family, Carol enjoyed taking singing lessons with her twin sister, Doris, as a young gal.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The battery architecture was selected to allow for underseat storage, with a 17-liter (3.7 gal) capacity for luggage beneath the flat rider and pillion perch.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
19 Dec. 2024
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Here’s your chance, lads and lassies, to snap up a historic home in Scotland from one of the United States’ most beloved musicians.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2023
Noun
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Their days are taken up with shooting practice, lobster racing, pelting men with fruit, and slipping poison into unattended cups of tea—and best of all, there isn’t a damsel in distress in sight.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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For the female dancers, there are swans and sugar plums and celebrated damsels under duress, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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No information has yet been revealed about the maiden show—both founding galleries represent Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie—but admission to the space will be perpetually free, with Pace and Galerie Judin presenting their own individual shows henceforth.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
28 Jan. 2025
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The song is Abrams’ maiden No. 1 hit in the U.K., and followed the release of a deluxe edition of her sophomore LP, The Secret of Us, in October.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Initially a passive Southern belle, Kidman’s Ada morphs before our eyes into a woman made harder and stronger by the absence of men, and her physicality matches the tenacity Kidman so often incorporates into her work.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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Ahead of Election Day Cyclorama: The Shape of Things contains a wide spread of imagery: footage on both pro- and anti-segregation riots, recordings from antiquated circus acts featuring a dancing elephant, silhouettes of what appear to be Southern belles in hoop skirts that laugh over tea.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
4 Nov. 2024
Noun
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There are letters and gifts given to the house’s maids, butler and gardener.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2025
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Latinos’ vulnerability is particularly evident in wealthier areas like Pacific Palisades, where many commute daily for household roles such as maids, housekeepers and home health aides.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Gerwig plays Naomi, the ingenue who rolls into Arthur's life in an unexpected meet cute in Grand Central.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov. 2024
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“Senorita.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senorita. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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