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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 Venus in Aries is a force to be reckoned with regarding both matters of amour and of money. 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 See All Example Sentences for amour
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Noun
  • The two reportedly began an affair after meeting.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The squad is undoubtedly better, the first XI is probably not, and the club were made to look weak over the Isak affair.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Back in Cousins, Taylor is explaining how Belly and Conrad’s relationship is deeper than just a high school fling.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • For her, bedrooms and dining rooms, in particular, benefit from the romance and visual depth these prints offer.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The pair rekindled their romance after a five-month break in early 2025.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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