as in partners
the person to whom another is married
she has threatened to divorce her significant other if he doesn't stop gambling
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Recent Examples of significant others
The cast of The Pitt has scrubbed in for season 2, and so have some of their real-life significant others.
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Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
So Wild players were ecstatic for the final stop after 14 consecutive days of sleeping in hotel rooms, eating out and not seeing their significant others and children on anything but FaceTime.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
In Season 3 of The White Lotus, which recently earned Goggins his first Golden Globe nomination, his troubled traveler Rick reluctantly has dinner with Gries’ Gary after their significant others Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) strike up a friendship.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
When the Chiefs players and their significant others were out celebrating the Super Bowl LVIII victory in Las Vegas, a Cowboys fan joined the party.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
In previous years, the friends have even brought in their significant others to play matching characters.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Allison Williams and Dave Franco are thrown together after their significant others die in a car crash.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Hernandez said his wife heard some stories about alleged issues while staying at the Pfister from other Dodgers’ significant others.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
If the unmarried grandchildren in your family aren’t allowed to bring home significant others to stay in the same room, then explain to Dana that this policy has to be universally applied.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
So Wild players were ecstatic for the final stop after 14 consecutive days of sleeping in hotel rooms, eating out and not seeing their significant others and children on anything but FaceTime.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
In Season 3 of The White Lotus, which recently earned Goggins his first Golden Globe nomination, his troubled traveler Rick reluctantly has dinner with Gries’ Gary after their significant others Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) strike up a friendship.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
When the Chiefs players and their significant others were out celebrating the Super Bowl LVIII victory in Las Vegas, a Cowboys fan joined the party.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
In previous years, the friends have even brought in their significant others to play matching characters.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Allison Williams and Dave Franco are thrown together after their significant others die in a car crash.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Hernandez said his wife heard some stories about alleged issues while staying at the Pfister from other Dodgers’ significant others.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
If the unmarried grandchildren in your family aren’t allowed to bring home significant others to stay in the same room, then explain to Dana that this policy has to be universally applied.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for significant others
Noun
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The company expects the store to expand rapidly as more apps and partners join, providing a growing library of skills for commercial and personal robots.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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These test projects would also include environmental monitoring In addition, the council would form a public–private Rare Earth Elements Consortium composed of state government, university and industry partners.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Trump is a member of a small but mighty group of American political spouses tending to the role in their own right.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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Yet spouses everywhere claim that number should be significantly higher.—
Scott Kramer,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But there were no miracles, just the bodies of daughters, sons, wives, husbands, mothers and fathers to pull from the water, identify and return to their families.—
Gary Fields,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Dodds told The Oregonian that she was also inspired by the 2003 film Calendar Girls, which is based on a true story about a pair of friends posed nude for a calendar to raise funds for a local hospital after one of their husbands died of cancer.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Significant others.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/significant%20others. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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