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white wine and chicken marry especially well
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Recent Examples of marries
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.
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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
This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
Song broke out with her 2023 drama Past Lives, which follows a woman from Seoul, South Korea, who ponders her relationship with a childhood friend in the decades after her family immigrates to Canada and marries an American man in New York City.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
His Chelsea restaurant Hav & Mar marries his cross-cultural upbringing in both its name and design.
—Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
The emotional reaction of viewers also owes a lot to the sound design that so deftly marries the actors’ voices, the music and accompanying sound effects.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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
This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
Song broke out with her 2023 drama Past Lives, which follows a woman from Seoul, South Korea, who ponders her relationship with a childhood friend in the decades after her family immigrates to Canada and marries an American man in New York City.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
His Chelsea restaurant Hav & Mar marries his cross-cultural upbringing in both its name and design.
—Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
The emotional reaction of viewers also owes a lot to the sound design that so deftly marries the actors’ voices, the music and accompanying sound effects.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marries
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The foot bone connects to the leg bone, the leg bone connects to the hip bone, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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The team across the Causeway — the highway viaduct that connects Yolo County and Sacramento — would be the Sacramento State Hornets.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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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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For an extra-inventive twist, Brazilian designer Lucas Simões recently unveiled the Colendra chair, a wild, sculptural example of metalworking that combines an irreverent sensibility with practiced craft.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
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In addition to individual programs from our peers, the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME USA) runs a national apprenticeship program that combines classroom study with on-the-job training.—
Mark Rayfield,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Edith Hessenberger, director of the Ötztal Museums, told Austrian news outlets that evidence from the materials, locked away under the ice for 80 years, matches almost exactly with historical records from the mission.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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The spotty quality of the voice work matches the unevenness of the animation from Toronto’s Guru Studios.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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The plan proposes an immediate ceasefire, the return of all hostages, and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Comparably, Norman Bates in the 1960 film Psycho develops a split personality of his mother and commits murder while dressed as her.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Ti West, who scored double horror hits last year with X and Pearl, commits almost too well to the sightseeing tedium of a typical vacation video.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Rowing engages legs, core and upper body muscles and, even at a moderate pace, burns a ton of calories, more than 500 in an hour for a 165-pound person.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Each creative ambassador who is selected will receive a stipend of $12,000 to produce a project that engages the public in creative expression.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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This NiceTown design features a grommet top and promises the sort of pitch-black darkness expected from a product with the word Halloween in its title.—
Shoko Wanger,
Architectural Digest,
6 Oct. 2025
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Unlike the vast majority of punk concerts, this promises to be a barrage of melodic, accessible singalongs.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Marries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marries. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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