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
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Maybe so—and a coming wave of insider stories attesting to Weiss’s difficulties in asserting her authority strikes me as the most inevitable outcome of this affair.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Ministers appointed just the previous night found themselves in the bizarre situation of becoming caretaker ministers — kept in place only to manage day-to-day affairs until a new government is formed — before some of them had even been formally installed in office.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Swift’s fling with Healy allegedly only lasted around two months, while Charli and Daniels got married this summer.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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The 13-track indie folk record explores themes of romance, uncertainty, and life on the road.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Stein said her new book, a literary novel about a TikTok hype house, went into a second printing before it was even published—possibly thanks to the approaches she’s learned from romance.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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