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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for betroth
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My precious Of course, the question of who would keep the ring that Patrick proposed to Kacie with came back up.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images To help Social Security and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries cope with higher prices, a group of Democratic senators are proposing to increase benefits by $200 per month for six months.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Struggling with a lack of career opportunities, Gen Z is second-guessing the worth of pricey college degrees, which once promised them six-figure jobs.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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The two got engaged in 2014 and have remained affianced since.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
Peoplemag,
5 May 2023
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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
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He was released after a few weeks in jail when filmmaker Jen Gatien pledged her $2 million Manhattan apartment where the combat veteran was living as collateral for a bond.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2025
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Lai has pledged to increase military spending to 5% of GDP by 2030, strengthening the island’s defenses in the face of a rising threat from its giant neighbor China.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Another Halloween fanatic, Janelle Monáe fully committed to the bit by dressing as the Cat in the Hat for her Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel walk.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Glasner prefers his players to know their role perfectly, to complement each other and to commit to the game plan largely without deviation.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Performing squats on the unstable surface engages your legs and your core muscles.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
31 Oct. 2025
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Hans is engaged to a fellow performer, but Cleopatra has her eyes on Hans’s sizable inheritance.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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In a post shared on Reddit’s Am I the A------ subreddit, the woman explained that her mom is getting married in just over six weeks in a destination wedding in Europe.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Abandoned by her family, Pooro lets Rashida marry her, take her to another village, and change her name to Hamida.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Betroth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/betroth. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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