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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 | 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
The psychologist leaned forward and clarified that the man meant snow from the sky, and not a ground-level accumulation in the form of a buff snow guy or a voluptuous snow gal.
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Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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.
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.
Scenes from this film-within-a-film play out in full, and feature Emma Mackey as a damsel escaping a hungry, humanoid fish creature, while a pair of mad scientists, played by comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, attempt to study the ravenous creature.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
The game saw Mario once again saving a damsel (Princess Peach, then called Toadstool) from his nemesis, Bowser (née King Koopa), which would remain his motivation for countless sequels for decades.
Last year’s inaugural race — held on Carb Day, the final day of practice before the Indianapolis 500 — featured six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles racing around the Brickyard, with Slaw Dog claiming the maiden victory.
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Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
Fognini reached top 10 in the world in 2019 and won the 2015 Australian Open men's doubles tournament, while Pennetta won her maiden singles Grand Slam at the 2015 US Open.
Headliners Lorde, Kali Uchis, and Jennie, of the K-pop girl group Blackpink, are joined by such artists as Wet Leg, Blood Orange, King Princess, 2hollis, Geese, and Slayyyter (June 5-7).
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
Whether tied under the chin or wrapped around your head, a colorful scarf instantly gives the look a little Euro Summer energy—with just the right amount of fashion-girl flair.
Bette Davis – 1939 Jezebel (1938) Bette Davis’s role as a Southern belle in Jezebel came after career frustrations for the actress; Warner Bros. had sued her for breach of contract for pursuing roles outside the studio.
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Chris Feil,
Vanity Fair,
15 Mar. 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.
The thing that first struck Sawyer was his giant collection of dolls.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
14 May 2026
The craft class for schoolgirls — including how to fabricate doll furniture — would be continued Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the duration of the summer.
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Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026