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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluestocking
Noun
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Meanwhile, global companies and technical experts and intellectuals have fled Russia in droves.—
Ronald H. Linden,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2025
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Among them were a bevy of noted artists, writers, intellectuals and revolutionaries.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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Wagner would be a sleepless highbrow’s favorite; the long, lush, unbroken lines of music share with the white-noise hum of the air-conditioner or the thrum of the painstaking lecture the quality of being absorbing without offering undue eventfulness.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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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
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Waters was a pioneer of urban blues music and a big name on the Chess label.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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In November, following Trump’s election, millions of users joined Bluesky, a nearly identical app to pre-Elon Musk X, right down to the shade of blue.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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This tournament could be heaven for hockey nerds who have been starved for best-on-best at this level.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2025
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From jocks to nerds, cheerleaders to shy kids, Dazed captures the universality of being a young person on the cusp of truly entering the world, whether you're actualized or not.—
Brian Smolensky and James Mercadante,
EW.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Long the domain of points geeks, the often opaque world of frequent-flier programs is finally getting easier to navigate.—
Ryan Craggs,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2025
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When Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back debuted in 2021, the fact that Jackson had used artificial intelligence to clean up previously unusable audio was greeted with enthusiasm from tech geeks, and crickets from most everyone else.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2025
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