as in wedded
of or relating to marriage
neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got
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Recent Examples of marital
This story is universal in its community feeling, challenging parent-child relations, marital troubles, and eternal struggle between tradition and modernity.
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Audiofile Magazine
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
How couple could divide marital assets Swift and Kelce, like many wealthy couples, may opt to keep their own assets in case of a split.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
All of Ibsen is there – the murderous marital ennui, the broiling rage under the bourgeois façade – but DaCosta has made one key change to the original play.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
But there’s more driving his choice than marital duty.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
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Audiofile Magazine
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
How couple could divide marital assets Swift and Kelce, like many wealthy couples, may opt to keep their own assets in case of a split.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
All of Ibsen is there – the murderous marital ennui, the broiling rage under the bourgeois façade – but DaCosta has made one key change to the original play.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
But there’s more driving his choice than marital duty.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
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Shortly after spurning his conjugal love tent vehicle, Colby received a call from Pontiac with a proposition.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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Before jumping all in, consider grabbing your matrimonial attorney, talent manager, and financial advisory team for a chat.—
Morgan Mouchette,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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One goes into any union—automotive or matrimonial—with high hopes and unwavering commitment.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The film portrays a married couple balancing their dreams of becoming full-time artists with a desire to have children, only to get a surreal opportunity to do both by winning a supermarket game show.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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As part of her ruling, Kreuziger barred McQueen, 59, from saying Lawrence Kenyon poisoned or attempted to poison her while they were married.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
10 Sep. 2025
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No word, if Lively and Reynolds are going to Swift’s wedding with repeat Super Bowl champ and Kansas City Chief player Travis Kelce – but then again there is no word when that American royalty nuptial day is happening and who is going besides Swift and Kelce.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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The princess bride was escorted down the aisle by her father, the future reigning prince of Liechtenstein, and the nuptial mass music was performed by the St Florin Vaduz Church Choir and Schola St Florin.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The latest installment follows the central friends-to-lovers romance of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), ending with their connubial bliss and a new Bridgerton baby, the future new Lord Featherington.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 June 2024
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Over the last five months, Sydney Steinberg and Noah Findling have invited listeners into their connubial bed several times a week to hear about their lives as an entertainment power couple.—
Marc Hershon,
Vulture,
26 July 2023
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“Marital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marital. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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