boyfriend
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The doctor, whom prosecutors at Letby's trial referred to as her "boyfriend", was identified for the first time this month following his death.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
The woman’s answer was simple: “My boyfriend is a big Justin Herbert fan.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
She didn’t tell her boyfriend what was happening, and they eventually broke up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“We all have this yardstick inside ourselves, but it just isn’t sought enough. Maybe because it is the most difficult yardstick,” she explained in a letter to her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
Convent boarding houses are affordable and clean, but there are rules: curfews, chores and sometimes nuns who vet boyfriends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
She said, “I went to the moon during spring break to see how people live. When you came along, I thought, ‘Now I’ll have a boyfriend, like people have boyfriends.’
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
