as in affaire
a brief romantic relationship
in her memoirs the diva candidly recalls her amours with some of opera's best-known tenors and baritones
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Recent Examples of amour
Venus in Aries is a force to be reckoned with regarding both matters of amour and of money.
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Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
More poignant is the revelation that, despite being the writer of dozens of anthemic love songs, Warren has no great amour of her own.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie doesn’t want to be a four-alarm funeral pyre but a tragic romance, presenting Amy through the prism of the amour fou that put her into a tailspin and fueled her triple-platinum second album.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
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Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
More poignant is the revelation that, despite being the writer of dozens of anthemic love songs, Warren has no great amour of her own.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie doesn’t want to be a four-alarm funeral pyre but a tragic romance, presenting Amy through the prism of the amour fou that put her into a tailspin and fueled her triple-platinum second album.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amour
Noun
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The Washington Examiner met with Alexander Huang, special adviser to KMT Chairman Eric Chu and director of international affairs for the party, at KMT headquarters in Taipei.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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Told through the eyes of a group of Spartans sent into the meat grinder to deal with an unstoppable alien invasion, The Fall of Reach is a much more desperate, hopeless affair.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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During the show, Taylor receives evidence from Dakota's former fling Jenna, who reveals text messages proving Dakota had lied about their relationship.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Following Carrie's breakup with Aiden Shaw (John Corbett), the two had a brief fling before Duncan returned to London.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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What’s fall reading without a little hockey romance?—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The movie, which premiered at TIFF, stars Dinklage as store manager Mitch and Kirsten Dunst as Leigh, a Toys ‘R’ Us employee who develops a romance with the fugitive.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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