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He loved you too,” he wrote, concluding, “Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course."

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

His teenage daughter joined the crew, holding on for dear life as the roaring watercraft stood up on its tail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I have no children, and I’ve always planned for whatever I leave to go to my brother, a dear friend and a couple of charities I care about.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mother says, “Yes, Padre, it is me. But I am a shadow of who I was. I have lost my home. I have lost my husband—my dear beloved Samuelico just died at sea.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“We didn’t keep that,” she said, “but I loved learning what Lydia would do if she could. ‘Eyes forward dears, we are not sitting comfortably in a class room.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

I would think to myself, Oh, my dears, if you could only see who you are speaking to and how hard they work.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2024

By ingesting the chirpy little dears, Bergenkind seeks to internalize the little guys’ sunny joyfulness.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

My dears, I was quite exhausted just reading it.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2012

The ymbryne pulled back the hood of her cloak and said, “I am very glad to meet you, too, dears, but you must come inside at once; it isn’t safe out here.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Meanwhile, what got cheaper diverged sharply from what got dearer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

In the Hungarian countryside, activism often comes at a price, some dearer than others, as campaigners in Jaszfenyszaru can attest.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

“The freedom I had before the money was paid was dearer to me,” Ms. Jacobs wrote.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

“She will be dearer than my children because she will keep the memory alive of her father, mother and siblings.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

Books and pencils and porridge oats get dearer by the day, and the girls go through embroidery floss at an alarming rate.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

“The dearest things of all to them are fantastic goals, much more important than their daily bread.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"It is truly my dearest wish that this opens the way for other women who might not have dared until now," the 59-year-old, who lives in Anglet in southwestern France, said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even the non-thriller themes — female friendship, aging, ageism, admitting the truth about oneself to oneself and one’s dearest, the invigorating effects of danger — are explicitly expressed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Over dinner recently, I got to talking with one of my dearest friends — let’s call him Paul — about relationships.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

‘I thought it was he. Gandalf the Grey, dearest of counsellors. Leader of our Company. He was lost in Moria.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien