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

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

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Recent Examples of marry Samson Waithaka plays a prince who promised to marry Mumbi, creating a love triangle. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 The pair have since married and adopted twin children. Mikelle Street, Them., 4 Sep. 2025 Armani never married and has no children. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 That has changed over the last 50 years, researchers noted, making this combination of milestones — living away from parents, married, with children — vastly less common in 2025. Addy Bink, The Hill, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marry
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  • Another source told People in August 2025 that Swift and Kelce aren’t currently wedding planning.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Camus’ slim novel is wedded to Meursault’s point-of-view and he is framed as a man ultimately condemned by his failure to appropriately perform grief, with the wider social implications of his character left to the reader to unpack.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Saturdays in the South during football season can't be matched.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • GloRilla tapped into her preppy side in a plaid bustier dress, matching jacket and a hot pink Versace bucket bag.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Once a 19th-century military outpost, Fort Robinson now combines historic sites with miles of hiking and horseback trails.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • By combining co-creation, creator signals, and data systems, the company has built an engine for capturing information at scale and acting on it faster than rivals.
    Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • The cells extended nerve fibers in both directions, toward the head and tail, to connect with the host spinal tissue.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the presidents of the Central Pacific and, yes, Union Pacific railroads met in 1869 to drive the final ceremonial rail stake into the ground, connecting the east and west coasts.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • McBee also admitted to committing additional fraud in 2019 and 2020.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Those who dismissed intersectionality saw such policies as little more than allowing the disadvantaged to commit crimes without consequences to make up for past inequities, afflicting crime victims from the same disadvantaged communities.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Intersectionality proposes that societal problems such as crime and illiteracy correct themselves if opportunities and environments are evened out via public policy.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The agent also proposes that player power — and agent power — is another leading factor.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • The males, or drones, serve only one purpose, to mate with the queen.
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Birds of Paradise, for example, have mating rituals so intricate and elaborate that people form clubs just to catch a glimpse of the show.
    Joe Salas August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
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  • Their shared disbelief in science and disrespect for expertise unites them.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • They’re each united by coming-of-age themes including first love and first heartbreak, as well as varying degrees of anarchy, rebellion and mischief.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Marry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marry. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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