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Recent Examples of companionate
What matters more in long-term relationships is companionate love, where the partners have a calmer, friendship-like connection.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
For parents needing to refine the companionate element of their relationship, Brooks advised scheduling thirty minutes each day to talk about your day, worries or interests with each other.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
For many couples, romantic feelings can evolve into a companionate bond over time.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
This kind of familiarity—a way of talking through the screen, jostling past even the most interesting particulars set forward in a script—can make a performer a kind of alien, companionate presence onscreen.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem.
—Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020
Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
—Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
For parents needing to refine the companionate element of their relationship, Brooks advised scheduling thirty minutes each day to talk about your day, worries or interests with each other.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
For many couples, romantic feelings can evolve into a companionate bond over time.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
This kind of familiarity—a way of talking through the screen, jostling past even the most interesting particulars set forward in a script—can make a performer a kind of alien, companionate presence onscreen.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem.
—Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020
Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
—Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for companionate
Adjective
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Putin’s world has just become more harmonious.—
M. Gessen,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Sun teams up with harmonious Venus in your 10th House of Purpose, inviting you to showcase leadership through real proof.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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With a blend of emerging veterans and energetic freshmen, the Monarchs used their full-court press and balanced scoring to cool off visiting Santa Margarita 81-50 on Tuesday in a Trinity League matchup.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
21 Jan. 2026
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Velasquez believes a less divisive post-Trump era will lead to more Republicans at the local, state, and federal levels, and a more balanced approach to solving issues.—
Kenny Choi,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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That is why Pärt’s music in English, with its many single-syllable words, consonant clusters and diphthongs, sounds one way.—
Jeffers Engelhardt,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Their two consonant names, Lizzy and Lydia, invite comparison and contrast.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Let it be said, though, that ruling this fairyland—where sweets jump through hoops, perky as peppermint, or swirl around, rich as Spanish chocolate—requires not just a decorous carriage and a cordial disposition but true ballerina grit.—
Guillermo Perez,
Miami Herald,
9 Dec. 2025
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The affair grows less decorous in farcical scenes of upstairs and downstairs life — kitchen staff toiling away on blunts, a trigger-happy shooting party, and cockney pub patrons breaking out in song — and the various side plots.—
Elaina Patton,
IndieWire,
3 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Hannah is a sustainability consultant and climate impact manager, which is congruous with an outdoor ethos and the culture around bike guiding.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes,
3 Sep. 2024
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On the pool deck, a minimalist railing acts as a congruous border to this backyard retreat.—
Rachel Silva,
ELLE Decor,
24 May 2023
Adjective
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Houston leads the pack — by a lot If Austin’s showing feels respectable, Houston’s is dominant.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Jan. 2026
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That is a very respectable showing, with Boots drawing larger audiences than several high-profile series released around the same time.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And yet no analytical framework ever yields a fully satisfactory result.—
Amir Ahmadi Arian,
The Dial,
15 Jan. 2026
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But the Outback is satisfactory in both categories.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Don’t read that as snark—that’s a pretty big deal, and Marche’s observation in The Atlantic is absolutely correct.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Not to protect steelworkers or correct trade imbalances—and no one is insinuating that fentanyl is flowing in from Nuuk.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Companionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/companionate. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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