romanced

verb

past tense of romance
as in wooed

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  1. wooed
  2. courted
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  • Related Stories The latter who wooed viewers with her portrait of tax inspector Sara Santano, returns here with a new tax evasion case.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The 35-year-old man wooed many of the women through dating apps and offered up nonexistent investment opportunities, the release said.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of wooed
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  • Neoclouds, which buy Nvidia GPUs and then rent access to companies, such as Nebius and CoreWeave, have also courted the chip giant.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • After many decades of organizing, speaking, writing, agitating — and weathering the constant controversy that courted — Steinem kept going.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of courted
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“Romanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romanced. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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