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as in mated
to take a spouse
she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong
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as in combined
to come together to form a single unit
white wine and chicken marry especially well
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Recent Examples of married
Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
Clark and Floyd had initially bonded over the show’s namesake app, a means for married people to meet discreet new partners; Floyd, too, had met up with potential paramours like Modern Love (Peter Sarsgaard), the online pseudonym of a local roller rink owner.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
Martha Ross, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
Elizabeth Taylor married eight times, but the most scandalous may have been her wedding to fourth husband Eddie Fisher on May 12, 1959.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 13 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
The deduction phases out for individual filers earning more than $150,000 a year and married couples making above $300,000 a year.
—Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
Clark and Floyd had initially bonded over the show’s namesake app, a means for married people to meet discreet new partners; Floyd, too, had met up with potential paramours like Modern Love (Peter Sarsgaard), the online pseudonym of a local roller rink owner.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
Lamas also is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lamas was 11 years old.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
Elizabeth Taylor married eight times, but the most scandalous may have been her wedding to fourth husband Eddie Fisher on May 12, 1959.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for married
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The accumulation of taxes is also a major reason why the Bennifer marital mansion sat on the market, per Realtor.—
India Roby,
Architectural Digest,
14 Apr. 2026
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Lenny Hochstein, who kept the multimillion dollar marital home on Star Island in the bitter split, alerted the Miami Beach Police Department.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
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One of the law firms defending the trucking companies tallied fifty-three accidents that were connected to Motta and other attorneys with offices at 525 Clay Street.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Paul trained his project with 25,000 pictures of soil and connected it with an autonomous irrigation system that decides how much water the garden should receive.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Replacing Wilkinson’s scoring ability won’t be easy, but arguably the biggest loss here is actually Cyril, a 6-foot-11 shot-blocking savant who anchored UGA’s defense and has since committed to Miami.—
Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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A lot is up in the air for the UConn men’s basketball team, which only has one player publicly committed to returning while potential transfers visit campus.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
15 Apr. 2026
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Thursday’s fourth-quarter point total eclipsed his points scored in the Knicks’ past three games combined (14).—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Before Friday, Dennis, along with Claire McKeever and Ady Fincanon, had combined for 36 home runs.—
Myah Taylor,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Apr. 2026
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That motor comes mated to a centrifugal clutch with a CVT transmission and … wait for it … a belt final drive on an aluminum swingarm.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Apr. 2026
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Between 1995 and 2014, the chimps maintained long-standing friendships across three distinct clusters that mated, hunted and protected each other.—
Ryan Brennan
April 10,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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In a first locally, at least since this data has been collected, the number of people becoming homeless about matched the number of people becoming housed in 2025, according to a task force report in January.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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San Antonio, which matched the third-most victories in franchise history after going 62-20, will play the seventh seed, which will be determined by the winner of the first play-in game.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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The Days of Our Lives actress, 38, is engaged to Danny Cipriani.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The couple's milestone comes seven months after becoming engaged.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
10 Apr. 2026
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Here, electronic and muscle-driven pulses are more tightly fused.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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For the first time in US history, American physical dominance is being fused with American political anarchy.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Married.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/married. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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