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Seeing me coming in the door, Mrs. Levy-Cohen exclaims, “It’s always wonderful, chérie, to see you walking!”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
She skips away in her black go-go boots and halfway down the block she turns around and smiles at me and says, “Bye, chérie, bye, bye.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
"Yes, you have hurt me, ma chérie," she replied, leaning now her cheek against Karen's head.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
"I am glad that it is yours, ma chérie," she said, after the pause of her contemplation.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Yes, ma chérie," they seemed to say; "Bear up, I am bearing up.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Unlike Golden Tempo, who pulled off a 23-1 shocker to make Cherie DeVaux the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner, Taj Mahal will start at a much lower price for Brittany Russell.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The moment Cherie DeVaux became the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
They were giving out black bandannas with a drawing of Cherie Lee’s saloon emblazoned with Shaboozey “The Outlaw Cherie Lee,” the name of his forthcoming concept album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
Molly-Star Kirk, Cherie Boulton and Leona McKenzie were all patients at the Farndon Unit in Newark, Nottinghamshire, when they died between 2022 and 2024.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
She could still hear Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour” coming through the buds in her mother’s hand.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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