valentine

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Recent Examples of valentine So Emilio wrote the album for his wife, including a valentine. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 27 May 2025 Moss walks, talks, and even valentines The event got its start a few years back, when a Lewis & Clark student spent the summer working at Portland State University's Herbarium and fell in love with mosses, according to Parvaneh Abbaspour, Lewis & Clark's science librarian. Deena Prichep, NPR, 14 Feb. 2025 The card maker started to mass-produce valentines, and from that point, romance and commercialism went into overdrive. Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025 Unlike traditional valentines, these cards were filled with insults and rejections rather than sweet sentiments, according to History.com. Jordana Comiter, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for valentine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valentine
Noun
  • In 2023, Miller produced a tribute show in honor of Burnett’s ninetieth birthday—for NBC, not CBS, which balked at the idea that Burnett could draw an audience.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Paying tribute to his Puerto Rican roots, Bad Bunny dons a pava — a traditional hat woven from the leaves of the Puerto Rican hat palm.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This cal is every candle lover’s dream.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
  • National Coffee Day is the perfect time buy a gift for the coffee lover in your life.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Rockies lost 4-0 to the Giants on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park, a fitting eulogy to the worst season in franchise history and one of the most futile seasons in baseball’s modern era.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Jewish leaders in Arizona condemned Tucker Carlson's eulogy for Charlie Kirk as antisemitic.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No holiday is complete without these pecan sweets.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There’s definitely a place for dessert and sweets in a healthy diet.
    Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Through their on-camera interviews, passion and reverence for cinema comes clearly through, making the film a touching paean to the power of the artform and the people behind it.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over the summer the actress hit the desert and jetted to the islands with her boyfriend Van Hunt and wore an array of bikinis for their excursions.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Trujillo ultimately met with her boyfriend, Aburto Guzman, outside a few blocks away from the school, according to court documents.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And as a tongue-in-cheek homage to fair food, some crafters have begun constructing quilts-on-a-stick at the Minnesota State Fair, for example.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But this season, the homage goes deeper.
    Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, of course, but also Joe and his girlfriend, Rosa; Sam and the secretly gay matinee idol Tracy; Sam and Rosa; and Joe and his sister, Sarah (a brother in the book).
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Valentine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valentine. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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