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Recent Examples of puppy love
The puppy love-romance between Arsin and Meiyu is what drives the story, but there’s not much to it beyond lots of silent camaraderie and fleeting glances.
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
Sexiest Dog Dad: Max Greenfield Call it puppy love!
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Now, Scott's juggling high school hurdles like lacrosse, bullies, and puppy love with his new lupine identity — all while trying to protect his hometown from lurking threats.
—James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Pardon My Frenchie is no exception, with its tale of puppy love (for both dogs and humans).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
Sexiest Dog Dad: Max Greenfield Call it puppy love!
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Now, Scott's juggling high school hurdles like lacrosse, bullies, and puppy love with his new lupine identity — all while trying to protect his hometown from lurking threats.
—James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Pardon My Frenchie is no exception, with its tale of puppy love (for both dogs and humans).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppy love
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Their fearlessness is grounded in training and in seeing the Middle East as a limited operation in the future, after more than two decades of divisive and protracted entanglements — in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond — which Trump had campaigned on ending.—
Adam Carlson,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Hers is a direct critique of the banalities of global capitalism and its entanglement with labor and production, told through a body of work that is at once familiar yet strange, moving between the real and the fictional to fascinating and powerful effect.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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“Puppy love.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppy%20love. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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