marries

present tense third-person singular of marry
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as in connects
to perform the ceremony of marriage for they chose a priest who was a family friend to marry them

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as in weds
to give in marriage the couple worried about the cost of marrying off five daughters

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as in remarries
to take as a spouse he married his girlfriend three years ago, and they've been happy ever since

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as in mates
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong

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Recent Examples of marries Her character marries into the Corleone mafia family. Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025 Along the beer highway, Dubuque marries football and beer unlike any other city. Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Casper’s signature hybrid mattress marries the support of coils with the plushness of memory foam. Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025 The brewer's smooth Absolution Amber is a crowd favorite, while the Bienna marries the proud brewing tradition of Mexican- and Vienna-style lagers under one (ostensibly holy) roof. Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025 And behind-the-scenes videos show how the mastermind spent weeks perfecting the three-minute video that marries art history and Swift's song seamlessly. Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025 Once there, Lysanne marries a rich young man. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025 Truth is, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ernest is this epic film’s brutally flawed main character, a seemingly nice-enough nobody who returns from World War I, falls in love with and marries Gladstone’s Mollie, and consequently helps to orchestrate her and her family’s destruction. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 At the 55-acre estate, head winemaker Maya Hood White marries scientific precision with an intuitive feel for the land, using cover crops and careful canopy management to foster biodiversity and balance. Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
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  • Dalke's monitoring path through DC takes her under a skyway that connects two buildings downtown.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There is a bus system (rides start at €2) that connects most of the major tourist sites in Palma, and a railway (round trip, €40) that brings passengers to some other sites, including Sollér.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • The film weds Jewish mysticism and slow-creeping horror with all the anxiety of new lesbian love.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • The new display weds the photonic chip with a 5- by 5-millimeter liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) panel, which has a resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • Our proprietary technology combines geospatial analysis, artificial intelligence, and data science to identify rural properties with high potential both for environmental preservation and for deforestation risk.
    Tarciana Medeiros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • His world view combines a traditional conservative’s belief that government spending is out of control and the culture-warrior ethos of the Trumpian right.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • With the amount of stoppage time match officials are adding on, Premier League matches this season have lasted an average of 100 minutes and 35 seconds.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Each laser beam precisely matches the quantum energy levels of rubidium atoms.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • This proposes altering the Texas Constitution to allow the state legislature to provide temporary homestead exemptions for improvements made to properties that have been destroyed by fire.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s exactly what the Crafted in a Mercedes audio concept proposes to do.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Perpetrators could face up to 60 years in prison if a victim commits suicide.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • When one patient, a new mother experiencing postpartum depression, commits an impulsive, desperate act, Linda is forced to contend with her own physically and emotionally unavailable husband.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Organizers said they are dedicated to delivering a program that engages a wide and diverse audience of designers, students, businesses and the general public.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The fact that the mural engages both sides of the building, facing the street on one side and a basketball court on the other, perfectly captures the project’s goal of bringing art into the flow of everyday experience.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • While some mild language or edgy humor might still appear, the company promises to keep those cases rare.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Shot clandestinely and set for the most part in one somber Tehran apartment, Sacred Fig depicts a family of four whose patriarch, Iman (Misagh Zare), has just been named an investigating judge — a promotion that promises him both a bigger flat and a better place in Iran’s judicial hierarchy.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025

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