divorce
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Experts and couples interviewed by AFP spoke of a combination of factors, including longer educations and growing professional ambitions among women, along with rising divorce rates and financial strain on young professionals.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Even more high profile has been the divorce of Rep. Max Miller from Emily Moreno, the daughter of another prominent Ohio Republican, Sen. Bernie Moreno.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It has taken almost two years, and even now I still don't know when I can divorce her," he says, surrounded by his legal paperwork.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It serves not only as a beautiful backdrop, but also as the place where the struggling coach turns his own life around in the wake of a difficult divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
My mom was shouting something about divorce, when she finally looked over and saw me pouring ketchup on my flatbread and taking a bite.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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I think a lot of us feel like we grew up with Hilary, so all of her music resonated with us then, and now, now that we’re older, through relationships or divorces or motherhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Both stars finalised divorces from their former partners during their time together.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Many painted a picture of "destroyed" lives: divorces, losing custody of their children, prison, psychiatric hospitals, and astronomical medical bills in the hope of regaining "a normal, meaningful life."
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
“By then, both of us had been through divorces and she had two small kids—Oliver and Kate—and I had one, Boston. We hit it off and agreed, ‘Let’s have fun until we don’t.’”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
There had been several divorces among them, including Yolanda's.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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She moved into her grandfather’s empty house with her first husband, whom she married at 17 years old and later divorced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Bezos made a very hefty profit on the sale of the 9,240-square-foot home, having purchased it for $37.5 million in 2019, the same year he divorced Scott.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now divorced, Miller and Emily Moreno are involved in a custody battle over their 2-year-old daughter.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The attacker had lived with his grandparents, as his parents were divorced.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Jennifer is not the reason my parents got divorced.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Tom Segura is finally addressing the news that he and Christina Pazsitzky are divorcing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But divorcing a film like this from the times in which we’re absorbing it is short of impossible, no matter how much of an escape it provides for 109 minutes.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
It can cause a marriage to end, unleash a desire for revenge and influence how the divorcing couple’s children think about money as adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The pair announced their separation in 2024, with a spokesperson saying "their marriage is over and they are in the process of divorcing".
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Abuelita said that Papá was divorcing Mamá, but she didn’t mention that he had another woman and two other daughters.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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