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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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Comments For years now, superheroes have been a moment in the cultural spotlight—tough guys (and a few gals, too) who perform awe-inspiring feats of strength to defeat their enemies.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
20 Feb. 2025
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Attend a disco-pop dance party and drag show Saturday commemorating your fellow gals at Oasis at 9:30pm.—
Nadia Lopez,
Axios,
11 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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Many challenge the traditional dynamics between the hyper-masculine cowboy and the damsel in distress.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Their days are taken up with shooting practice, lobster racing, pelting men with fruit, and slipping poison into unattended cups of tea—and best of all, there isn’t a damsel in distress in sight.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In the background is a lake, perhaps where King Arthur’s mythical maiden resided before giving him his sword.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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Cowgirls, grunge girls, hippie chicks, hula girls, Mods, Pre-Raphaelite maidens, and surfers are some of the territories that her designs have come up with.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The set-up is simple: A Southern belle and her mother wait dutifully on the porch of their plantation for the return of a soldier following the American Civil War.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Initially a passive Southern belle, Kidman’s Ada morphs before our eyes into a woman made harder and stronger by the absence of men, and her physicality matches the tenacity Kidman so often incorporates into her work.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Almada’s mother worked as a maid, a nurse, and, eventually, a schoolteacher; her father had a full-time job painting signs for the municipal government.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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Kim Min-hee as Lady Hideko, a Japanese heiress, and Kim Tae-ri as Sook-hee, the pickpocket hired by a nefarious man to convince Hideko to marry him while serving as her maid.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Gerwig plays Naomi, the ingenue who rolls into Arthur's life in an unexpected meet cute in Grand Central.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Senorita.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senorita. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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