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Appeared in the December 4, 2025, print edition as 'Tom Steyer Aims at Affordability and Misses'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

In a first for Agatha Christie, four of the crime novelist's famous mysteries are being adapted for children – with the help of the Mr Men and Little Misses.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

Here, we still have Misses Downey, Antelope Valley, Tustin — at least a dozen or so in L.A. and Orange counties.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

She held one of her first drawing classes at the home of city founder Arthur A. Denny, on Front Street, where she taught his granddaughters, “the Misses Frye,” and a group of their girlfriends.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2022

To the billiard-room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr. Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë