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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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Boards then need a position on industry-level governance participation (standards bodies, information-sharing arrangements, mutual grounding agreements) as a fiduciary matter, not a public-affairs nicety.

— Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
City attorneys again argued the complaint referenced confidential internal affairs investigations protected under Missouri law.

— Ben Wheeler July 9, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026

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Probably not, since his romances were more often of the tragic variety.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 4 July 2026
For an artist like Taylor Swift, who has built a $2 billion career out of musically documenting her romances and breakups, marrying Travis Kelce is almost certain to yield great songwriting material.

— Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 3 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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