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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.
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Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Apr. 2025
For many couples, romantic feelings can evolve into a companionate bond over time.
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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.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Sep. 2024
These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Swiss Coffee works with woods, aged metal, stone, greenery, and more to create harmonious, lively interiors.
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With the nurturing Moon in your 6th House of Health and Routine, a harmonious trine to authoritative Saturn in your 10th House of Career and Status brings steady traction.
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Brazil takes on Japan in an enticing first game of the day, while the Netherlands and Morocco meet in one of the more balanced matchups of the round.
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But rigatoni's firm, chewy texture contrasts with the silky sauce, creating a more balanced bite.
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But recent research found that members of the Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society in Bolivia, rate consonant and dissonant chords as equally pleasurable.
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The method of literacy instruction is often associated with smaller letter sounds, like consonant blends or syllables.
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The press coverage in Austria and Germany had been relatively decorous.
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This is a lovely, if rather decorous and reverent, tale of an illicit affair that’s unlikely to cause as much noise as Dhont’s last two films.
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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.
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On the pool deck, a minimalist railing acts as a congruous border to this backyard retreat.
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Despite hot, humid conditions, a respectable crowd has already gathered, with organizers expecting attendance to grow as temperatures ease later this evening.
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But the Celtics’ latest deal for George makes the Clippers original deal for George a lot more respectable.
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Kelley said the company believed the existing easement was satisfactory and wasn’t told otherwise until after investing years of work on he project.
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For writing, editing, spreadsheets, email, and web browsing, performance proved entirely satisfactory.
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Jevremovic sued him for defamation in December but a judge threw out the case, citing that it hadn’t been filed in the correct jurisdiction.
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Croatia still furious Despite the correct decision being made, Croatia manager Zlatko Dalić was far from happy, saying VAR had ruined the spirit of the game.
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“Companionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/companionate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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