as in boyfriend
a man who courts a woman usually with the goal of marrying her
of all her wooers, he was the only one who met with her father's approval
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Prosecutors accused Read, 45, of hitting her boyfriend John O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV in a drunken rage and leaving him to die during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
25 June 2025 -
Francesco recalled a visit from Elizabeth Taylor’s boyfriend who was quite enamored.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 June 2025
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Any dinosaur lovers at home should be eating up this documentary special series on PBS this week.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
19 June 2025
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Here are performances music lovers won’t want to miss.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
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There’s no macho posturing between the two guys – instead, Song has written them each as decent suitors to Johnson’s conflicted Lucy.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 June 2025
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Philadelphia could be a team to keep an eye on as a possible suitor.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Sturdy men work with their hands, forging arrows with which to kill zombie interlopers.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
19 June 2025
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Authorities say a man disguised as a police officer shot and killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a former speaker of the state House, and her husband Mark, and wounded a state senator and his wife early Saturday.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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The Twins ultimately traded Cruz and fellow reliever Evan Sisk to the Royals in the 2023 offseason.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
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Horowitz, who had taught robotics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and went on to become a graduate fellow at the California Institute of Technology, thought that AI and robotics could help improve those margins.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
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But in the new film, the unnamed swain has been replaced by a Robin Hood-style heartthrob named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who leads a defiant group of bandits that steals from the monarchy and gives to the poor.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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“Wooer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wooer. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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