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as in match
a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people
some religions consider marriage a sacrament
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Recent Examples of marriage
With five marriages under her glittering belt and three children, the star’s off-screen life has been no less cinematic.
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Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
As your life changes—marriages, births, or selling a business—your plan must evolve.
—Bygabriel Shahin, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026
This function protects property rights, supports the integrity of the real estate market, enables transparent government operations, and preserves essential life records such as births, deaths, and marriages.
—Claire Wang, Oc Register, 6 May 2026
In an interview in the Harvard Gazette, Waldinger reported that satisfaction in relationships, particularly in marriages, was the best predictor of a happy and healthy life.
—Michael Clinton, Time, 5 May 2026
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Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
As your life changes—marriages, births, or selling a business—your plan must evolve.
—Bygabriel Shahin, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026
This function protects property rights, supports the integrity of the real estate market, enables transparent government operations, and preserves essential life records such as births, deaths, and marriages.
—Claire Wang, Oc Register, 6 May 2026
In an interview in the Harvard Gazette, Waldinger reported that satisfaction in relationships, particularly in marriages, was the best predictor of a happy and healthy life.
—Michael Clinton, Time, 5 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marriage
Noun
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On March 1 the following spring, Hulst won his varsity singles tennis match that afternoon and then came back to win the varsity 2-mile in a dual meet that night.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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After 15 matches last season, SDFC was 8-4-3, sitting on 27 points with a plus-10 goal differential and already looking less like an expansion team than a Western Conference problem.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Right now, Amazon’s outlet includes easy cotton dresses for under $20, casual-to-formal shift dresses, and even wedding-ready dresses marked down by as much as 80 percent.—
Aashna Gheewalla,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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And people who are eager to lose extra weight — before a wedding or a vacation, for example — may choose to self-administer a higher-than-recommended dose, said Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine.—
Maia Rosenfeld,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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Then there is the lifelong contentiousness with her mother, Marluce Martins Perry, a talented Brazilian artist who reluctantly traded her gifts and status for matrimony and child-rearing and resented her family in the wake of her decision.—
A.D. Amorosi,
SPIN,
4 May 2026
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Lucy works as a high-end matchmaker for New York’s elite while cooly observing that only a very wealthy husband will ever (to paraphrase Elizabeth Bennet) induce her into matrimony.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Each of the contenders have showcased their relationship with the president in their pitch to voters.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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Carrying this dual way of writing and naming forward, by the late 1950s, Carson’s ever-expanding ecological thinking would lead her to consider the place of human beings in this web of relationships.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Wilde navigates the tonal shifts with authority, delivering surprises along the way, including an ending that somehow delivers hope for the institution of wedlock.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Some House Republicans though argued the measure amounted to government interference, prevented the formation of stable families and would allow babies to be born out of wedlock.—
Emma Murphy,
Oklahoman,
7 May 2026
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“Marriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marriage. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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