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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
  • Early in their careers, Bitzer, who mainly handles 800 Pound Gorilla’s business affairs, and Greiman, who focuses on creative development, worked in country music — both in artist management, and Greiman, at Outback Presents, a leading promoter of country music and comedy tours.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But before that storied affair, there was the welcome dinner, held at the Chinatown institution Wo Hop.
    James Factora, Them., 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lots of shows have car bombings and kidnappings, and at least a handful have women straining against the tension of their romantic lives and career ambitions while conducting their extramarital flings on the floor.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Reese Witherspoon proved her slingback streak is more than a weekend fling, arriving in New York on Monday in a glossy brown pair.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Perry and Trudeau first sparked romance rumors over the summer, when they were spotted on a date in Montreal, Canada.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Perry’s new romance comes a few months after her split from actor Orlando Bloom in early July.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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