as in sweetheart
a person with whom one is in love
has been married to his truelove for 50 years
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Recent Examples of truelove
These included #truelove, #fromhereonout, and, of course, #heckyeah.
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Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truelove
Noun
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Barbara Deer, a North Lawndale native, married her high school sweetheart, Dennis Deer, 51, who died in 2024 following a double lung transplant, FOX 32 and WGN-TV reported.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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There's something about a sweetheart corset that feels extremely Swiftian.—
InStyle Editors,
InStyle,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Software had been a Wall Street darling in recent years.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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Yuga Labs has gone through several rounds of layoffs, and is hardly the darling of the tech world anymore, which has moved on to AI startups.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Yes, sweetie, sexy wormholes have entered the chat.—
Fiona Landers,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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Look into your sweetie’s eyes and say that your love is vaster than Jupiter.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Frankly, my dear, Tom Jacobsen doesn’t give a dome.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
15 July 2025
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Black bag, my dear — her work trip sets off a chain reaction in which George’s strength, i.e., faith in their relationship, becomes his weakness.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That’s probably why class-crossed lovers make such fertile ground for fiction—look at Heathcliff and Cathy, or poor Scudder and Maurice.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Options for 2026 include food cruises that travel through Burgundy and Provence and a 15-day wine lovers cruise on the Rhine and Seine Rivers.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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How one was born for the stage or how the other had inexplicably inherited Jean’s love for animal prints.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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McCormick began sending Kim love letters — dozens of them.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There, fortune cookies were eventually mass-produced by Benkyodo, a now-defunct sweets manufacturer.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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All of the sweets are made by Sugiyama's pastry-chef girlfriend Yui Matsuzaki, from scones served with cream and jam, seasonal fruit tarts, lemon cake, shortbread cookies, muffins, and occasionally a Japanese pudding that's to-die-for.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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That day, Dizzia and Davis had both tested positive for COVID, so Shawn, eighty-two, and his partner, Deborah Eisenberg, eighty, had agreed to fill in—Eisenberg as the wife and Shawn as the girlfriend.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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At the hearing, prosecutors from the Cook County State's Attorney's office said Roldan's ex-girlfriend had been in a relationship with Garay for four years.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Truelove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truelove. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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