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as in to wed
to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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as in to match
to give in marriage the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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as in to remarry
to take as a spouse he married his girlfriend three years ago, and they've been happy ever since

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as in to mate
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong

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Recent Examples of marry Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, has pulled the rug out from under happily-married-after dreams. Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025 The pair have been married for 51 years, according to an Instagram post from April 2025, in which Arlene wished a happy 80th birthday to Robert. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025 Remote workers in the survey were also more likely to marry. Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025 Bezos went on to marry journalist Lauren Sánchez, and Scott focused on her charitable endeavors, vowing to donate most of her money in life. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marry
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  • The break-up, announced in January, was a surprise because Carter, who succeeded Paul Keel as chief executive in March 2024, had run both Smiths Detection and Smiths Interconnect earlier in his career and some investors perceived him as wedded to them.
    Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • One of my favorite books about the Constitution, by historian Michael Kammen, argues the paradox of Americans’ relationship to the Constitution is that people appear to be so wholly wedded to a document that so few have ever read for themselves.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • Inputs are applied as horizontal or vertical displacements at the sheet’s edges, and outputs appear as movements at other edges, matching the result of a matrix applied to the input vector.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Season 4 will consist of eight episodes, matching the number in the third installment.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
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  • Both would go on to remarry — Ball to comedian Gary Morton in 1961 and Arnaz to Edith Mack Hirsch in 1963.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Those duties continued, even after her father got remarried about a year after getting divorced.
    Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • The engine is mated to a four-speed manual transmission.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In particular, screens mated to computers, the most flexible machines ever invented.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • For example, Swan Lake, created with Jacki Apple, combines a film noir murder trope with the glitzy alluring language of high-end advertising.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • After Chloe Tryon dismissed Mandhana in the 18th over, Verma combined with Jemimah Rodrigues (24) to add a further 62 before both were out.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • More than 60% of 136 facilities connected to missile production or the Chinese military’s rocket force, which controls China’s nuclear arsenal, showed signs of expansion in satellite images.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This can then aid you in targeting your audience, guiding you in adjusting prices to consumer needs, and even lead you to use AI to personalize marketing messages to better connect with certain groups.
    K.H. Koehler, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • Because of delays, Peter, having committed to spending a year in Israel, turned to me to manage all aspects of this sprawling project.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Yet even among a number of Christians seeking to raise awareness and intensify efforts to put an end to systematic abuses committed by Boko Haram and other jihadi movements, the prospect of foreign intervention raises serious concerns.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • Running Fence was first proposed in 1972 but took four years to fully realize.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed reducing flights by 10% at 40 airports if a government shutdown deal is not reached.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Marry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marry. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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