dating service
noun
: a business that introduces people to each other so that they can decide if they want to date each other
online dating services
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Here’s what borrowers need to know. BREAKFAST BROWSE Operation Match: The dating service that changed our love lives
Many couples now meet by swiping through dating apps.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Ashley Madison is an online dating service that was originally targeted towards people looking to have an affair — either with married individuals or singles.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
The news reports of Schreiber’s synthesis were less than adulatory--Esquire magazine gave him a Dubious Achievement Award for creating a cockroach dating service.
—Gary Taubes, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
As her fiance Ken Steinkamp tells it, the couple met through a dating service on a rainy night in December 2019.
—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
When a university function turns into a black tie gala, Millie and her four best guy friends make a pact to join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event.
—Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
After all, no one wants to try to sell soda between pro-Hitler memes, or be asked to join a dating service alongside racial epithets in all caps.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Ashley Madison is an online dating service that was originally targeted towards people looking to have an affair — either with married individuals or singles.
—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
The news reports of Schreiber’s synthesis were less than adulatory--Esquire magazine gave him a Dubious Achievement Award for creating a cockroach dating service.
—Gary Taubes, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
As her fiance Ken Steinkamp tells it, the couple met through a dating service on a rainy night in December 2019.
—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
When a university function turns into a black tie gala, Millie and her four best guy friends make a pact to join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event.
—Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
After all, no one wants to try to sell soda between pro-Hitler memes, or be asked to join a dating service alongside racial epithets in all caps.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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“Dating service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dating%20service. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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