affiance

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Recent Examples of affiance The two got engaged in 2014 and have remained affianced since. Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023 Alexandra Crotin, a rep for Stone, later confirmed to USA TODAY the actress and writer are now affianced. Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019 Below, more perfect gifts to get anyone freshly affianced. Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019 Agreeing to be honored in a good friend’s wedding does not mean signing up to pay for expensive group vacations — no matter what the magazines and affianced tell you. Judith Martin, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019 Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson became the subject of engagement rumors Monday afternoon with outlets reporting that they were recently affianced. Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 11 June 2018 The newly affianced, reluctant to trouble one another with family problems, may rent substitutes for parents who are divorced, incarcerated, or mentally ill. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018 If this woman decides to yell at you for becoming affianced, that’s a real opportunity for her fiancé to lovingly encourage her to amend her bad behavior. Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affiance
Verb
  • Portofino held a special place in Taylor's heart—Burton first proposed to her there.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The class-action suit proposes including participants from season 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the series.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For her part, Catalina doesn’t seem like the bruja we were promised.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In 2019, the 37-year-old Bukele ran for president as a populist outsider promising to defeat crime and corruption in a nation with one of the world’s worst homicide rates and a history of former presidents being charged with crimes.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a bid to increase his nation’s number of rug rats, Władysław Grochowski, owner of one of Poland’s biggest hotel chains, has pledged to throw a party for every couple who conceives while staying at his properties.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Sikhs for Justice, an activist group, stepped in to cover funeral costs and pledged $100,000 in humanitarian aid for the victims’ families.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Count Almaviva seeks to exercise droit du seigneur over his wife’s maidservant, Susanna, who is betrothed to his valet, Figaro.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
  • Phoenix plays rebellious protagonist Lucius, who is betrothed to Howard's Ivy.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Tennessee law holds that those who committed crimes before 1999 can choose between being put to death by lethal injection or the electric chair.
    Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The 10-point agreement obtained by USA TODAY, would commit participating schools to cap international undergraduate enrollment at 15% of the student body, freeze tuition over the next five years; and require applicants to take the SAT, ACT or other similar entry exams.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Others—such as an eagerness to engage someone in combat—work in the gym, ring, and battlefield but become counterproductive and even destructive outside of those contexts.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The program teaches children about connections between people, animals and the environment, and ways to engage locally to help all three.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Affiance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affiance. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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