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boyfriend

[boi-frend] / ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd /


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Pike had accused Colleen of insulting her and trying to steal her boyfriend.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Released last October, the bittersweet song details Langley's suspicions that her boyfriend is about to run off with another woman.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Her love life proves to be as evanescent as her artistic medium; when the novel begins, Tor learns that her boyfriend, Andreas, is cheating on her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Panettiere lived in Los Angeles, but her boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, is a Greenville native, according to authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“But it’s not like I want him to be my boyfriend or anything.”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

We actually found a social insight on TikTok, with people commenting that we need to enlist our boyfriends in boot camp, they’re bad gift givers, so on and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Wives read everything, girlfriends read everything, boyfriends read everything.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

“How come you got so many boyfriends, Miss Marie?”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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