bluestocking

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Recent Examples of bluestocking But Peck is already aware of Imogen's penchant for pandemonium, resisting the task of baby-sitting a bluestocking. Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2023 The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 But the most charming of all are West's distinctive set of sisters — a hopeless romantic, a bluestocking, a fashion maven, a tomboy, and a perfect lady. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022 One of them was the famous 18th-century bluestocking Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Edward Montagu, a British ambassador. David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 His polar opposite, meanwhile, was the pair of bluestockings to his left. Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020 Astrid hews to ideas that earn her the label of bluestocking, but Howard makes those qualities utterly desirable in Thane’s eyes. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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Noun
  • In France, his critique of Islam and Israel have pegged him as Islamophobic and anti-Zionist among some left-wing intellectuals, who say his political views veer toward those of Marine Le Pen and the far right.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This beef-ending smash hit was an unlikely marvel: a defiantly West Coast track turned national anthem, a club hit recorded by an angsty intellectual, and an angry, dense diatribe with an indelible hook.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Richie Grainge herself has evolved her stylistic approach from an ostentatious Los Angeleno verve into a look that’s more low-key highbrow.
    Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • No word better sums up our quixotic hopes for the visual, uniting the lowbrow (video-game headsets, van Gogh warehouses), the highbrow (Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms, James Turrell’s light installations), and the middlebrow (Alfonso Cuarón’s Steadicam jaunts, James Cameron’s 3-D extravaganzas).
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • How to Play 'Connections' The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the trickiest.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The fiery tear in the rich, dark blue of the night sky in this photograph captured by Trevor Mahlman in February, is a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, captured during the moments of stage separation as the vehicle's main booster burns back toward Earth and the second stage streaks onward to space.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Others geek out over Velma, the glasses-wearing, hypothesis-sharing nerd from Scooby Doo.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
  • As the pandemic raged, the lawsuit hardly registered outside the small world of nerds obsessed with copyright rules.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Take a day trip to Saba and the World’s Shortest Commercial Runway Another bucket-list destination for aviation geeks is Saba, the Dutch Caribbean island just a 12-minute flight from Sint Maarten.
    Johanna Read, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Airbus High-tech planes taking off next year Airbus’s newest plane will shake up route maps around the world Aviation geeks have been following the launch of Airbus’s new A321XLR plane with bated breath.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024

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