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as in mated
to take a spouse
she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong
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as in combined
to come together to form a single unit
white wine and chicken marry especially well
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Recent Examples of married
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
Gross and Baxter were both 41-years-old when Family Ties went off the air in 1989, and at the time he had been married to his fictional wife longer than his actual spouse, Elza.
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Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
Allison Degrushe,
StyleCaster,
16 June 2026
Pino’s wife takes the stand Pino’s wife Cecilia told jurors she and her husband, whom she has been married to for 25 years, saw the girls on the boat grow up as their two daughters attended the same elementary school, Epiphany Catholic School, as many of the girls.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
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They were married for 29 years.
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Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
22 June 2026
Gross and Baxter were both 41-years-old when Family Ties went off the air in 1989, and at the time he had been married to his fictional wife longer than his actual spouse, Elza.
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Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
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The exes, who were married for nearly 30 years, separated in 2023 and finalized their divorce in June 2025.
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Allison Degrushe,
StyleCaster,
16 June 2026
Pino’s wife takes the stand Pino’s wife Cecilia told jurors she and her husband, whom she has been married to for 25 years, saw the girls on the boat grow up as their two daughters attended the same elementary school, Epiphany Catholic School, as many of the girls.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
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In the special, Arcuri tackles topics like marital pranks and urinal mind games while contending, on the more serious side, with his wife Katie Thurston’s cancer journey.
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Prosecutors also alleged King fathered a child through an extra-marital affair and threatened the child’s mother to keep quiet.
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Two people believed to be connected to the stabbing were located and taken into custody.
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Hill later pleaded guilty to criminal charges connected to the case, though she has never been charged with jury tampering.
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The offense got two runs back after the Rays committed two errors of their own.
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The Mets committed six errors in the nightcap — two apiece by first baseman Mark Vientos and second baseman Marcus Semien and one each by fellow infielders Lindor, Mark Vientos and Bo Bichette.
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They got engaged nine months later, but called off their engagement in late 2015.
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The dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv comes just as Europe has re-engaged the United States in pressuring Moscow to end the war, with officials on the continent warning the neighbors’ tensions would play into the hands of President Vladimir Putin.
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That mill is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission.
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Pegasus was mated in mid-June to the Stargazer aircraft, which will transport it from the Wallops facility to the Marshall Islands ahead of the launch, NASA said in a press release.
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As of 2026, Vacaville spends 67% of its general fund on the Police and Fire Departments combined.
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This scale dwarfs European and North American national markets combined, creating an enormous economy of scale for manufacturers of black paints.
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The second is a return to Sangiovese in its purest form, with estates not already wedded to international varieties retreating in favour of a more Tuscan identity.
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Hsueh said that gold prices became more firmly wedded to the outlook for Fed rate policy starting around the the middle of May, and less tied to the correlation to energy prices that had prevailed since the start of the Iran war.
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Morocco is ranked sixth in the world by FIFA, one spot ahead of the Dutch, who matched Germany with a tournament-high 10 goals in the first round.
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Our limitless ability to destroy is matched only by our ingenious ability to recover.
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“Married.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/married. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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