as in affair
a brief romantic relationship
an office romance that ended with hurt feelings on both sides
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Recent Examples of romance
Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
Beyond the romance and historic elegance, Villa Sant’Andrea is fully outfitted for modern life, with fiber-optic connectivity and high-tech surveillance systems.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Hit the trails at a state park, romance your partner on a sunset ride, or challenge your skills on a running trail.
—Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 20 Sep. 2025
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Noun
To point out that Colin isn’t a conventional romantic lead is also to note, redundantly, that this movie isn’t a conventional romance.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
Beyond the romance and historic elegance, Villa Sant’Andrea is fully outfitted for modern life, with fiber-optic connectivity and high-tech surveillance systems.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
This is the place that Manchester calls home for the next six months, leaving occasionally to sell video games for cash, go to church, and romance a local single mother named Leigh Wainscott.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Hit the trails at a state park, romance your partner on a sunset ride, or challenge your skills on a running trail.
—Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romance
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Justin White, vice president of student affairs and strategic initiatives, told the college's board of trustees this month the college is enrolling a record number of high school students in concurrent credit courses.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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The archivist handed him a heavy file—or legajo—labeled 377, from a section dealing with Caribbean affairs.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Nothing like it Eric Schickler, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, points out that presidents more typically try to woo the places that voted against them.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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And a whole succession of leaders from countries that are nominally still American allies — Britain, Germany, South Korea — are wooing rather than shunning Beijing to deepen economic cooperation.—
Andreas Kluth,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
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The breakout pair play closeted pro hockey players that are rivals on the ice who carry out a secret fling away from the rink.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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In case you haven’t been drawn in to the six-episode series yet, Kenworthy is referencing Hollander’s brief fling with actress Rose Landry (Sophie Nélisse), which ends when Landry susses out that the hockey hunk is possibly more interested in her gay BFF than her.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
27 Jan. 2026
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That last-minute development is reviving debate about the extent of state support for Vanke, one of the last major developers to have avoided an outright default after a broader property market slump sparked record debt failures in recent years.—
Bloomberg News,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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Not long after, Liv Morgan questioned Balor’s approach with Punk, which helped spark the chaos that closed the show.—
Rob Wolkenbrod,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Cameron’s focus has been on reality series and dating formats.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
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The company argues that by combining conversational AI with structured evaluation, dating apps can move closer to how people actually build relationships in real life.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Romance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romance. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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