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Recent Examples of domestic partnership
It is also underrated as an affecting celebration of domestic partnership.
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
february 4, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2025
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
february 4, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for domestic partnership
Noun
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The project was part of a $1 billion modernization program. 2011: For the first time in Illinois history, gay and lesbian couples obtained civil unions.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2025
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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.—
Damisola Sulaiman,
The Dial,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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These pressures not only shape male friendships, but in familial relationships between fathers, sons, and brothers, and how men perceive vulnerability and emotional literacy.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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As much as Jones has tried to downplay it, the relationship between him and Parsons was a notable factor in the sides’ separating.—
Jon Machota,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Humans have always ingested endophytes given that endophyte–plant cohabitation goes back hundreds of millions of years, and endophytes contribute to our gut microbiome.—
Anna Marija Helt,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Sep. 2025
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But the definition of commitment is shifting as more couples choose nonmarital cohabitation, and as relationships become increasingly individualized.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Domestic partnership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestic%20partnership. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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