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Recent Examples of senorita
Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senorita
Noun
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There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Potentially, there will be gals involved, which will be great for the game as female golfers are playing more and more on-course and off-course.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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While the mixed chats devolve into spaces for laddish toilet jokes, innuendos, and obsessions with drinking, the gals dissect the men without restraint.—
Kassondra Cloos,
Outside Online,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
19 Dec. 2024
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Here’s your chance, lads and lassies, to snap up a historic home in Scotland from one of the United States’ most beloved musicians.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2023
Noun
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But don’t think Sherry is some damsel in distress, which Midthunder will later elaborate on in the spoiler portion of this interview.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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In stereotypical movies, the gallant hero saves the damsel through daring, dramatic action.—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Maynilad Water may help spur IPOs in the Philippine Stock Exchange, which has yet to see new maiden share sales since mid-2024.—
Ian Sayson,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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No one knows exactly who made them, or how to definitively interpret their narrative, but there’s something instantly striking about the iconography: a white unicorn is pursued, retaliates, is lured by a maiden, and then is caught, encircled by a fence, and chained to a tree trunk.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The sassy Southern belle was known for her fashion, knack for art history and on-and-off relationship (but eventually very on) with Dwayne Wayne.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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One of the most popular rooms at the event was the mirrored ballet belle of the ball setup.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The room looked very nice, so clearly the maid had done her work.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2025
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The leading occupations for immigrants in 2023 included manicurists, maids, housekeepers and roofers.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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While Grande embraced the wide-eyed ingenue archetype during the Wicked press tour, her references to Hepburn have become much more overt.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
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In director Jamie Lloyd’s electric and minimalist Broadway update of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1990s musical based on a ‘50s movie, the former Pussycat Doll nails the comedy of a camp diva — inhabiting former ingenue Norma’s delusion and ego without ever losing sight of her sincerity.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Senorita.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senorita. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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