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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 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 Eileen has been, up to this point, a bruised slice-of-life drama, a dingy-retro period piece, and possibly a romance just waiting to rev its amour fou engine. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023 Perhaps for the harder hit amour, in the U.K., supermarket chain Asda — previously owned by Walmart WMT -0.1% — has launched a $1.24 (that’s £1) engagement ring as part of its George Home collection, which is available to buy in its stores and online. Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for amour
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  • Trump's comments follow a string of legal wins for Harvard's leaders, who vowed in April to fight back against what many onlookers in higher education have described as unprecedented interference by the federal government in a campus's affairs.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 21 June 2025
  • The city’s immigrant affairs office is currently a lean two-person team, with Aragon and a language access coordinator.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
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  • Over the past eight months, Cavallari has made headlines for topics ranging from a past fling with Glen Powell to her strained relationship with her father.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 17 June 2025
  • What begins as a secret fling between two confused teenagers at 17 evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self- discovery.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • What Will Happen in Love Island USA 2025? Love Island USA 2025 will follow the same format as previous seasons, with singles traveling to Fiji for a summer of romance and a chance at finding their one true love.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Everybody wants to do that with a drama, with the romance, whatever.
    William Earl, Variety, 20 June 2025

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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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