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amours

noun

plural of amour

as in affairs

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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Sarah Sorscher, director of regulatory affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said states use the block grants to fund epidemiologists and other specialists involved in investigating outbreaks.

— Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 23 July 2026
Kent Walker, the company's president of global affairs, called the ruling 'product degradation driven by a small group of self-serving complainants' and said compliance means stripping out real-time features like instant hotel pricing.

— Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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This was years before Yorn would get wrapped up in his own Hollywood romances with stars like Winona Ryder and got his own chance on set, making an acting debut in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 23 July 2026
The series’ logline suggests the media diet of Daily Show writers has recently included not only very serious news reports but also spicy vertical romances.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026

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Throughout this dense and always engrossing survey of Lean’s career in film, Thompson threads the vicissitudes of the director’s personal life, spanning six wives and various other relationships and flings.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
In the satirical comedy, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a successful and chauvinistic advertising CEO who lives for power and casual flings.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 May 2026

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