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as in to combine
to come together to form a single unit
white wine and chicken marry especially well
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Recent Examples of marry
Soon after, Olga divorced her husband, freeing Paul to seek the czar’s permission to marry her.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025
Lucy meets Harry at the wedding of one of Lucy’s former clients, who is marrying Harry’s brother.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Rumors of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married are running rampant online.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 June 2025
King Pentheus becomes Stavros, a wealthy, controlling figure married for decades to Hedy, Lena’s best friend.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025
Lucy meets Harry at the wedding of one of Lucy’s former clients, who is marrying Harry’s brother.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Rumors of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married are running rampant online.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 June 2025
King Pentheus becomes Stavros, a wealthy, controlling figure married for decades to Hedy, Lena’s best friend.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marry
Verb
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Joel and Weber eventually reunited, and the pair wedded.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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Yet the Buddhist cause has since become wedded to that of the Communists—a misunderstanding that the modern Vietnamese government continues to promote.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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That matches Colorado Avalanche’s Cale Makar as the fastest active defenseman to that mark.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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The singer donned a completely sheer Ludovic de Saint Sernin gown to promote her new record on Wednesday, June 4, at Rockefeller Center in New York City, accentuating her chic look with matching black underwear and no bra in a risqué, NSFW Instagram post.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Her mother, a housewife, later remarried, and Leichtman was raised in a mixed family of five stepchildren.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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After her mother remarried, Rich said there was a lot of fighting and instability in the home.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
5 June 2025
Verb
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Spraying the male mosquitoes with Metarhizium fungal spores could ensure that the fungus spread to the female mosquitoes that the males mated with.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
4 June 2025
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These birds regularly mate and produce young together.—
Elay Shech,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
Verb
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The process can be complicated, but generally, under reconciliation, the goal is to combine spending and revenue provisions into a single bill.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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The film is deeply atmospheric, combining handmade aesthetics with an emotive, electronic score to craft a meditative journey about separation and connection.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
9 June 2025
Verb
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What about you? Brody: Kristen Bell and I are connected in a few ways.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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All this can be controlled directly from the display without the need to connect to a web interface.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Verb
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Good leaders and employees commit to clear objectives and the approach to achieving them.—
Megan Leasher,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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But by the time Mo returned for its second season, this past January, the massacre Hamas committed on Israeli soil on that day in 2023 had catalyzed a war that has decimated Gaza.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Bass proposed a budget in April that called for laying off about 1,600 civilian city workers, one-fourth of them at the LAPD.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
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The agreement proposes annual wage increases of 1.3 percent in 2024, 1.4 percent in 2025, and 1.5 percent in 2026, along with six full cost-of-living adjustments for career employees.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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“Marry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marry. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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