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Recent Examples of prima donna
Celebrities being rude and acting prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new, the Los Angeles Times noted.
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
Celebrities acting like prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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Vernazza and Manarola are often considered the prima donnas of Cinque Terre, but Monterosso al Mare wins for personality, with the most to offer visitors from where to bed down to local wining and family-run dining.
—Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
Celebrities acting like prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
La Cantina di Miky andrey ak/La Cantina di Miky
Vernazza and Manarola are often considered the prima donnas of Cinque Terre, but Monterosso al Mare wins for personality, with the most to offer visitors from where to bed down to local wining and family-run dining.
—Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prima donna
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Very much a doubles specialist, Errani is a former world No. 1 and is part of an exclusive group of women to have completed the career ‘Golden Slam’ in doubles – winning all four grand slams and Olympic gold.Amanda Davies, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
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Though still raw compared to more experienced players in 2021, Clarke batted .324 with 8 homers and 11 doubles in 38 games, stealing 15 bases in 17 tries and playing fine outfield defense.Chuck Murr, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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These include: Princess Noel, a human who is the princess of light and magic.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
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Maybe there's a prince or a princess or a mistaken identity.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
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There's a new age of film, and some of Hollywood's leading ladies are here for it.Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
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In each, the real culprit causing the leading lady to turn into Manjulika, the unhinged spirit of a royal dancer, was eventually identified as dissociative identity disorder.Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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The show followed the adventures of teacher Andrea Thomas, who discovered an ancient Egyptian amulet that bestowed upon her the power of the goddess Isis.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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The fifth and last day celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters, who give each other gifts and express love, respect and devotion in remembrance of the story of the goddess Yamuna.Peter Guo, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
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An Irish actor who’s wowed audiences with delicate, intimate performances in Normal People, Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers, and who’s already inspired numerous Reddit threads devoted to his thighs, Mescal is given a chance to step up as an old-school, matinee-idol leading man here.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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How can a leading man so steeped in American iconography have taken so long to make a Western?Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the final minute, UCLA walk-on guard Jack Seidler made a spinning layup for his first career basket, prompting his teammates to mob him in celebration after the final buzzer.Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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But there’s no way to dismiss — or forget — the week that led to walk-on quarterback Jackson Stratton making his first career start.Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Prima donna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prima%20donna. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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