betroth

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Recent Examples of betroth Whether you’re betrothed or trying to manifest it, take a cue from Selena Gomez’s minimal approach with a sheer pink shade for something chic and timeless. Audrey Noble, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025 Immediately, fans flooded the comments on her post asking if she's betrothed. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024 Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco will undoubtedly host one of the celebrity weddings of the decade after recently becoming betrothed. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024 But an engagement announcement published five months earlier said she was betrothed to a Henry Strezelecki. Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 16 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for betroth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for betroth
Verb
  • Intersectionality proposes that societal problems such as crime and illiteracy correct themselves if opportunities and environments are evened out via public policy.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The agent also proposes that player power — and agent power — is another leading factor.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There were even marketing wars that sometimes backfired, as in 1994, when Owners Abroad promised a marketing blitz after rebranding to First Choice.
    Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The projects received millions in state and local tax incentives after promising to create thousands of new jobs.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The two got engaged in 2014 and have remained affianced since.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • Alexandra Crotin, a rep for Stone, later confirmed to USA TODAY the actress and writer are now affianced.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
Verb
  • The campaign saw 18,682 backers pledging over $3 million, with every backer receiving a Sleep A30.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Harvard’s athletics website has scrubbed from its pages a policy pledging inclusion for transgender athletes.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • McBee also admitted to committing additional fraud in 2019 and 2020.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Those who dismissed intersectionality saw such policies as little more than allowing the disadvantaged to commit crimes without consequences to make up for past inequities, afflicting crime victims from the same disadvantaged communities.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • She was previously engaged to commercial public relations executive John Dineen, who died from a rare form of cancer in December 2015.
    Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of growing a virus and weakening it to allow the body to engage its natural defenses, mRNA vaccines use pieces of genetic code to manufacture a protein, a piece of the virus.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He is married with two children.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The pair met in a lecture hall and dated for six years before marrying.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Betroth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/betroth. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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