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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
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.
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
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.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
On the top floor of a Spanish immersion elementary school in St. Paul, Minn., a classroom of fifth graders is immersed in a world of damsels in distress and knights slaying giants.
Morse wheeled his runner back in seven days after a last-race maiden victory of five lengths on the Arkansas Derby undercard.
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Bob Wisener,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2026
This British production from Hammer Films and director Roy Ward Baker showcases moon maidens, old-fashioned lunar shootouts, buggy chases, and an ex-astronaut turned mercenary salvager trying to snag a 6000-pound sapphire asteroid from orbit for a billionaire industrialist.
The ladies Carnarvon, their daughters, and their guests—not to mention the governesses, maids, and cooks?
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Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
With the husbands off for a golf outing, Julia and Jane (well attended to by Chimo’s martini-mixing maid Saunders) get decked out in their evening finest and wait impatiently at Julia’s luxe apartment (Jane lives upstairs) for the mystery man Maurice to arrive.
Schleifer and the Stallions boys and girls tennis teams concluded the season by sweeping the 2A state championships at Red Bug Lake Park in Casselberry near Orlando.
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Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
2 May 2026
In girls track, Montverde won 2A R2.
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Johnny Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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 queen will gift a new Roo doll to the New York Public Library’s famous Winnie the Pooh collection as the character marks 100 years since its creation.
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Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
The leader of the rebellion chatted with young kids carrying Princess Leia dolls and wearing Boba Fett masks.