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Recent Examples of prima donna
As a portrait of an artist as a prima donna, a pioneer and, yes, a bona fide genius, the movie is still worth its weight in wire hangers.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024
Knicks, please don’t trade away scrappy players for prima donnas like Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, etc.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
Celebrities being rude and acting prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new, the Los Angeles Times noted.
—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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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024
Knicks, please don’t trade away scrappy players for prima donnas like Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, etc.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
Celebrities being rude and acting prima donnas toward restaurant personnel isn’t anything new, the Los Angeles Times noted.
—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
See all Example Sentences for prima donna
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prima donna
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Additional energy sanctions could be a solid double.Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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The former Florida State star seems on the fast track already, having hit .313 with 5 doubles, 4 triples and 7 homers in 32 minor-league games.Chuck Murr, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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The debut feature from Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese follows a sheltered space princess who embarks on a galactic mission to rescue her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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The photo, taken by Matt Porteous in Windsor last summer according to People, shows the princess looking very casual indeed.Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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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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At one point, the project’s two leading ladies gave a speech of their own defining the power of friendship-first collaboration between costars.Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2025
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The two leading ladies — Keerthy Suresh, who makes her Hindi debut, and Wamiqa Gabbi, who makes her mass film debut — don’t get enough to do.Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Maia was the eldest of the Pleiades and was a fertility goddess.Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
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Walsh, Hathaway’s stylist, made Mindy Kahling into a golden goddess for the Globes, styling her in a sparkling Ashi Studio gown.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Garfield, an actor who has defined the notion of being a modern leading man with feelings, thinks cinemagoers should be free to show their emotions without apology.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
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Reeves has been a Hollywood leading man for decades.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Washington transfer Mishael Powell, a former Huskies walk-on, wasn’t the problem in the secondary.Manny Navarro, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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When the true freshman phenom strained his hamstring Nov. 2 against Georgia, third-string walk-on quarterback Aidan Warner stepped in and acquitted himself well during a 34-20 loss to the No. 2 Bulldogs.Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Prima donna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prima%20donna. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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