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Noun
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This is one of those romantic musical-chairs situations in which couples pair off and try to keep one another interested while other sexpots cycle through the house and try to split up the power pairs.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
22 Nov. 2024 -
However, when Abby turns out to be a sexpot who distracts the men on staff — everyone from John Lutz’s Lutz to Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy — Liz attempts to set her straight.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Within a decade of Mahler’s death, Mahler-Werfel had acquired a reputation as a femme fatale, a sort of intellectual dominatrix.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Alice, Lost Highway Playing double duty as both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield in 1997’s head-spinning Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette delivers a killer performance of another Lynch femme fatale with a twist.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Within minutes the night air was filled with the sound of fire sirens.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The trooper activated their emergency lights and siren to initiate a traffic stop.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
4 Feb. 2025
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