as in dating
the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married
a long-married couple who look back on their whirlwind courtship with fondness and laughter
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Recent Examples of courtship
The message came with a photo of Donaldson carrying his bride under an arched walkway, plus a few pics from along their happy courtship.
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Paltrow, now 53, and Affleck, also 53, dated for three years, on and off, in the late 1990s — and began their courtship just before his 1997 film Good Will Hunting, premiered.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
The baile also represents strong emotion — passion, courtship, everything from sadness to joy.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Flashbacks to their courtship reveal the magnetic romantic charge that brought them together, while also demonstrating how that intensity would ultimately curdle into acrimony.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Paltrow, now 53, and Affleck, also 53, dated for three years, on and off, in the late 1990s — and began their courtship just before his 1997 film Good Will Hunting, premiered.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
The baile also represents strong emotion — passion, courtship, everything from sadness to joy.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Flashbacks to their courtship reveal the magnetic romantic charge that brought them together, while also demonstrating how that intensity would ultimately curdle into acrimony.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for courtship
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Synch’s bet is that by pairing a coach like Lily with deeper compatibility modeling, online dating can start to feel closer to a thoughtful, real‑world introduction than an endless catalog of faces.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Transforming the Human Touch Beyond fraud, dating, academics, and email writing, a subtler form of the AI intermediary is popping up in offices around the world.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Actually looking for the romance category as a category that’s been underrepresented, both in streaming and just kind of broadly in our eyes.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Yet in Season 3 of the show, Theo didn’t appear at all, suggesting that Eloise’s romance in the show may go back to following the books.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Courtship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/courtship. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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