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as in coupled
to take a spouse
she swore that she would never wed
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Recent Examples of wedded
Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2026
Sheeran wedded his childhood friend and former schoolmate, Cherry Seaborn, in 2019, and the happy couple have two kids.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2026
Yet, even as India remains wedded to the dirtiest fossil fuel, its coal consumption is roughly 40% of China’s at the same stage of development, Ember found.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
If anything, Amorim proved too defiantly wedded to his own ‘way’, a 3-4-2-1 system which had to force-fit players into unnatural roles.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The encyclopedia’s format remains wedded to the information-dense, text-heavy style of Encyclopaedia Britannica—the very model Wikipedia was designed to replace.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
Moreover, some in Merz’s caucus are not wedded to sustaining the firewall against the AfD and envision cooperation with the far-right party, an idea Merz absolutely rejects.
—Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2025
The break-up, announced in January, was a surprise because Carter, who succeeded Paul Keel as chief executive in March 2024, had run both Smiths Detection and Smiths Interconnect earlier in his career and some investors perceived him as wedded to them.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
One of my favorite books about the Constitution, by historian Michael Kammen, argues the paradox of Americans’ relationship to the Constitution is that people appear to be so wholly wedded to a document that so few have ever read for themselves.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
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Pitt is of the school of pal Bradley Cooper, wedded to bootcut jeans, bucket hats, and big label staples.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2026
Sheeran wedded his childhood friend and former schoolmate, Cherry Seaborn, in 2019, and the happy couple have two kids.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2026
Yet, even as India remains wedded to the dirtiest fossil fuel, its coal consumption is roughly 40% of China’s at the same stage of development, Ember found.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
If anything, Amorim proved too defiantly wedded to his own ‘way’, a 3-4-2-1 system which had to force-fit players into unnatural roles.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The encyclopedia’s format remains wedded to the information-dense, text-heavy style of Encyclopaedia Britannica—the very model Wikipedia was designed to replace.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
Moreover, some in Merz’s caucus are not wedded to sustaining the firewall against the AfD and envision cooperation with the far-right party, an idea Merz absolutely rejects.
—Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2025
The break-up, announced in January, was a surprise because Carter, who succeeded Paul Keel as chief executive in March 2024, had run both Smiths Detection and Smiths Interconnect earlier in his career and some investors perceived him as wedded to them.
—Ian King, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
One of my favorite books about the Constitution, by historian Michael Kammen, argues the paradox of Americans’ relationship to the Constitution is that people appear to be so wholly wedded to a document that so few have ever read for themselves.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedded
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My meeting with Hélène Mercier Arnault, the Canadian pianist who is married to LVMH chair and CEO, Bernard Arnault, is arranged at Le Laurent, an elegant Paris restaurant inside an 18th-century pavilion off the Champs-Elysees.—
Laure Guilbault,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2026
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Josh Hamilton and Maria Dizzia play a married couple, John Early their son, and Hope Davis the husband’s mistress.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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On Luck…or Something, Duff gives listeners a front row seat to the therapy sessions, marital tensions, mid-drive anxiety spirals, and fraught walks down memory lane that make up life for many a 30-something.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2026
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This year saw the separation of Andrew and Ferguson, marital issues between Charles and Princess Diana, a fire at Windsor Castle and was the year Princess Anne got a divorce.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Wedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedded. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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