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Recent Examples of ex
Wayans has two children with his former partner Angela Zackery and one child with ex-girlfriend Brittany Moreland.
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Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 June 2026
Zaire is one of two children Dwyane had with his ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches.
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Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Alfred Sloan, ex-CEO of General Motors, allegedly asked at the beginning of a board meeting whether everyone agreed.
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James G. Naples,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
Josh Hartnett as Frank, the second husband to Richie’s ex, Tiffany, played by Gillian Jacobs?
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Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
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Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 June 2026
Zaire is one of two children Dwyane had with his ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches.
—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Alfred Sloan, ex-CEO of General Motors, allegedly asked at the beginning of a board meeting whether everyone agreed.
—
James G. Naples,
Fortune,
27 June 2026
Josh Hartnett as Frank, the second husband to Richie’s ex, Tiffany, played by Gillian Jacobs?
—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ex
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Joe Root, Jofra Archer, Matthew Fisher and Josh Tongue were dismissed in two double-wicket maidens by Henry.
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Across two stints, Magnussen made 185 starts in Formula One and raced for McLaren, Renault and Haas, recording a career-best runner-up finish in the 2014 Australian Grand Prix — his maiden start in F1.
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The late Taylor Bradford’s book details the decades-long story of Emma Harte, a Yorkshire maid who becomes a business mogul.
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In another, a Pullman maid is bent over, hard at work, with her hair swept back into a ponytail, her gaze pointed downward and focused on the task at hand.
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It may have first been owned by wealthy bachelor Floris Soop, possibly the man who appears in a 1654 painting by the artist now hanging in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Siena Hainline completed her bachelor’s degree this past May from University ofMichigan in Ann Arbor.
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The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.
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There would be some updates—instead of a spinster, my protagonist, Clemence Lathbury, is a divorcee.
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“Ex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ex. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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