love affair

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Definition of love affair

1 : a romantic attachment or episode between lovers

2 : a lively enthusiasm America's love affair with baseball

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the tabloids feel obliged to keep us informed of the love affairs of celebrities, whether we care to know or not a group of young men united by their love affair with the muscle car

Recent Examples on the Web Binoche plays an artist in her 40s, Isabelle, who moves from one unsatisfying love affair to another. — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas And Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021 The Broccolis have a love affair with Italy, and it’s in most of their films. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021 After the breakdown of one lukewarm love affair Neve spends most of her time alone or with her landlord’s cat. — Suzanne O’sullivan, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021 Michael Kors’s love affair with New York City runs deep. — Maciek Kobielski, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Aug. 2021 While the Welsh landscape and the holy chalice elicit some of Machen’s most ecstatic prose, so does Ambrose’s youthful love affair with the servant girl Nelly. — Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020 Clearly, Olivia Rodrigo’s love affair for the ’90s is one of both substance and style. — Liam Hes, Vogue, 2 July 2021 Yachty’s love affair with Michigan rap culminates with Michigan Boy Boat, a 14-track mixtape that features a dozen-odd Michigan rappers, including Sada Baby, Tee Grizzley, Rio Da Yung OG, and YN Jay. — Danny Schwartz, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2021 Wall Street’s love affair with blank-check investments — these days achieved via special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs — won’t end well, columnist Michael Hiltzik writes. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021

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