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beloveds

noun

plural of beloved

as in darlings

a person with whom one is in love searching for some incredibly romantic spot in which to ask his beloved to marry him

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Recent Examples of beloveds Miller also strategically employs the Pietà in his Confederate Women’s Monument, turning to Michelangelo’s later Depositional group from the Pietà Bandini, in which the dead Christ is not draped on Mary’s lap and knees but undulates across the bodies of his earthbound beloveds. — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026 Both helped design custom engagement rings for their beloveds. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026 Humans have long dreamed of constructing beloveds—if only to imagine them as immortal and thus impossible to lose. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026 For anyone who’s not already popping the popcorn, the film also stars Tracy Pollan, Steve Schirripa, Caroline Aaron, Patti Murin and Bills beloveds like Jim Kelly, Dion Dawkins and Steve Tasker. — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025

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Today, the Mexico City GP is recognized as one of the Formula 1 circuit’s intercontinental darlings.

— Alan Chazaro, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2026
The Gators went from the darlings of college football to deservedly unranked in just a few weeks after an embarrassing blowout loss at home to South Carolina.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of darlings

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Goebbels interviewed Wessel’s grieving mother and wrote of Jaenichen and Wessel as childhood sweethearts, as though their story was from romance fiction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
Gregory's mother-in-law told The Telegraph the couple were school sweethearts who had been together for over 20 years.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of sweethearts

Noun

Dylan’s sneer and Mick Ronson’s guitar jab like fingers in some intense argument, trying to win the pyrrhic victory of a lovers’ quarrel.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
Now comes Netflix’s spin on the romantic comedy to end all romantic comedies, starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden as the characters at the center of literature’s original enemies-to-lovers trope.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of lovers

Noun

The resulting photographs often remind me of Dorothea Lange’s, if Dorothea Lange were a teen girl on Tumblr doing a photo shoot with her girlfriends.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Big families sit right next to groups of girlfriends and couples on date nights.

— Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026

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