See cat lady on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2009 March 19, Jessica Fargen, “Cops: Lady froze her cats again”, in Boston Herald:",
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"ref": "2009 November, Suzanne Mullett, ABC News:",
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"ref": "2023 October 3, Sirin Kale, “Purring, parasites and pure love: what exactly makes someone a cat person?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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"ref": "2024 July 25, Catherine Shoard, quoting JD Vance, “Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "Aniston was responding to recently resurfaced 2021 comments by Vance, who told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”",
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