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as in boyfriend
a man who courts a woman usually with the goal of marrying her
my sister finally married her suitor of six years on Sunday
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as in solicitor
one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift
the inventor had several suitors for his patent, but he wasn't interested in dealing with a big company
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Recent Examples of suitor
Only when she is betrayed by a servant do the suitors discover the ruse.
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Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
The installment was criticized immediately because of the near-absence of Asian suitors.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
There’s a whole legion of other family members and potential suitors to join the Forsyte clan, too, of course.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026
The conversation heightened Hardaway’s temptation to pick Denver among a handful of suitors in free agency.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
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Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
The installment was criticized immediately because of the near-absence of Asian suitors.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
There’s a whole legion of other family members and potential suitors to join the Forsyte clan, too, of course.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026
The conversation heightened Hardaway’s temptation to pick Denver among a handful of suitors in free agency.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suitor
Noun
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Keshia Golden is charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Calvin Sidney.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Joining Murrill as a plaintiff is a Louisiana woman who says her boyfriend coerced her into taking mifepristone from a California doctor.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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The first is Jonathan Harker, naïve English solicitor despatched to Transylvania to do a deal with a mysterious Count whose plan is to dip his fangs into Victorian England.—
Demetrios Matheou,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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Mina also happens to be engaged to Jonathan Harker (Ewens Abid), a solicitor who pays a visit to the Count at his Romanian palace for a real estate deal.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Granville Suite, once military reception rooms, is named after Christine Granville, rumored lover of Ian Fleming and apparently Churchill’s favorite spy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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While the storm is looming, there are new glimmers of possibility—friends can become lovers, strangers can become friends on the subway, the supermarket aisles are charged with meaning.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Antinous later shocked the other suitors by insulting and assaulting with a footstool an elderly beggar who had spoken to him in the palace hall.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Mar. 2026
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So disguised as a beggar, Odysseus shows up at his palace, and he is not treated very nicely by the suitors who have camped out in his house.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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At its last meeting, the board had asked for further clarification on plans for septic from the petitioner.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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In addition to ending up saddled with the opposing council’s attorney fees, many of these AI-focused petitioners have faced court sanctions including expensive fines and harsh dismissals from fed-up judges.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
18 Mar. 2026
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He is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three times in the head in an Uruzgan province wheatfield in May 2012.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Another key starter has announced their plans to return to TCU men’s basketball next season.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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And as happens with the testimonies of the suppliants at the Asclepieion, the stelae ferry the feelings and names of these distant others across the ages to us.—
Teju Cole,
New York Times,
12 Sep. 2023
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Like other Te Deums, the work is both laudatory and suppliant, petitioning the divine for continued mercy.—
Hannah Edgar,
chicagotribune.com,
21 Aug. 2021
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Before her political career, Metayer Bowen was a confident, spirited teenager whose smile lit up the room, said Jessica Mund, a fellow classmate at Coral Springs Charter School.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Native American oral histories refer to gambling frequently, said Robert Wiener, a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth University who has studied gambling and religion at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, an ancient Puebloan center.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Suitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suitor. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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