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Recent Examples of civil union
The 2014 act went further than the original laws by banning marriages and civil unions, the operation of gay organizations and social clubs, public expressions of LGBTQ+ identity and advocacy of LGBTQ+ rights.
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Damisola Sulaiman, The Dial, 20 Feb. 2025
Mary and Romain entered into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
Liechtenstein legalized civil unions in a 2011 referendum.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
One of the things that the administration was thinking of doing was making people who had civil unions dissolve them, so that would have taken some time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 May 2024
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Damisola Sulaiman, The Dial, 20 Feb. 2025
Mary and Romain entered into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
Liechtenstein legalized civil unions in a 2011 referendum.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
One of the things that the administration was thinking of doing was making people who had civil unions dissolve them, so that would have taken some time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil union
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Life is full of necessary but mundane tasks, and in a domestic partnership, division of labor—who is doing the cooking, who is cleaning, who's got a handle on laundry—always comes up.—
Jana Pollack,
Parents,
27 Feb. 2026
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Sony Pictures Entertainment is further cementing its relationship with Netflix, entering into a first-of-its-kind global Pay-1 deal with the streamer, expanding on a years-long domestic partnership.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Jan. 2026
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Zookeepers are hopeful that the cohabitation will continue to go well, but no timeline has been given for when people could expect babies.—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Others are opting for cohabitation or staying single.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2026
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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax takes your comments and questions most Fridays about life, family, relationships and more.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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One 2021 review published in The American Journal of Medicine looked into the relationship between mushroom consumption and cardiovascular health.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
8 Mar. 2026
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Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.—
Robert Hornsby,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Oct. 2023
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“Civil union.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20union. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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