remarry
verb
re·mar·ry
(ˌ)rē-ˈmer-ē 
-ˈma-rē
remarried; remarrying
: to marry again
"… So they got divorced. But they loved each other, so after a break of 10 years, they remarried …"—
Linda Hashim
Linda Hashim… eventually separated and divorced, but though each remarried, they remained close …—Margo Jefferson
Margo JeffersonShe divorced her husband soon after the book came out, took up with, married and divorced a local disc jockey, remarried her first husband, dumped him again, and drank herself to death by age 39.—Edward Kosner
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Sussman now is remarried with grown children.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
Robert was assassinated in 1968, and Ethel never remarried.
—Elle Meier, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
Simpson was twice divorced, and Edward, the heir to the throne, was destined to be ceremonial head of the Church of England, which did not allow divorced people to remarry in church.
—ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
His mother remarried, and his stepfather—one of us, a German Jew—eventually began legal proceedings to adopt his stepsons formally, which would entail changing their last name from Wilson to Rosenthal.
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
Robert was assassinated in 1968, and Ethel never remarried.
—Elle Meier, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
Simpson was twice divorced, and Edward, the heir to the throne, was destined to be ceremonial head of the Church of England, which did not allow divorced people to remarry in church.
—ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
His mother remarried, and his stepfather—one of us, a German Jew—eventually began legal proceedings to adopt his stepsons formally, which would entail changing their last name from Wilson to Rosenthal.
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
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“Remarry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remarry. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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