valentine

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Recent Examples of valentine On Valentine’s Day, Violet makes Mira a special valentine. Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 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
  • This 11-year-old single malt Scotch is both a tribute to the rugged island distillery and a nod to Offerman’s love for the Caribbean.
    Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Woody Allen, who regularly collaborated with Diane Keaton throughout her career, honored the actress following her death in a tribute published on The Free Press.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Season 3 found Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) in a friends-to-lovers arc with neighbor Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who’d harbored a crush on him for years.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, star-crossed lovers Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Brian (Jamie Roy) managed to plot an escape of their own — but not before getting some major blood on their hands.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 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
  • The sweets wore adorned with a frosted pink Labubu.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But, as a girl, she was fixated on sweets for a sense of comfort and reward.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nixon’s point about the problem of casting Manson as a celebrity was, at bottom, a paean to the importance of an orderly judicial process.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While their Afrocentric paeans to the motherland signal a commitment to Black uplift, their loosey-goosey grooves—plundered from records by Mandrill, Manu Dibango, and Kool & the Gang, and frequently scratched straight from turntables to tape—drink from a deep well of pure pleasure.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The artist and politician started dating after Perry was freshly single from her split from longtime boyfriend Orlando Bloom.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then, Jenner's boyfriend, actor Timothée Chalamet, also made a big change with a dramatic buzz cut.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Warner watched from a private box with his ankle in a cast along with wife Sydney and son Beau — to thunderous cheers when shown on the Jumbotron — the second-year linebacker from Florida State saw the game as a homage to his mentor.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The week prior, his outfit paid subtle homage to Swift's 12th studio album.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Curry also remembered the future president being very eager for his then-girlfriend, Marla Maples, to be introduced to the film's director, Chris Columbus.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Alex has been dating his longtime girlfriend, Allie Smith, since at least 2022, per her Instagram.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Valentine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valentine. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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