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romance

[roh-mans, roh-mans, roh-mans] / roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊ mæns, roʊˈmæns /




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One of her biggest writers is the author-activist Glennon Doyle, who has chronicled addiction, divorce and an unexpected romance with soccer player Abby Wambach across a string of blockbuster self-help memoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

They may have been right about the romance.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The on-screen chemistry was clear from the start and the film received good reviews but the pair denied rumours of a romance, insisting they were just close friends while promoting the movie.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

But romance is different from other trackable behaviors like sleep or flatulence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

I was glad my incompetence in the romance department gave her a little break from her heartache.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

And while she knows people watch it for the drama and conversations it sparks, she thinks those are just "added extras" and the romances should be at the centre of the show.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

The movie’s sweeping visuals and romantic love story evoked a sentiment similar to 1940s war romances.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

But while Penn's romances have had their well-chronicled highs and lows, his acting career only followed one trajectory: up.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

The doomed romances, too—particularly between luminaries whose intellectual or artistic curiosity doesn’t extend to compassion for the people they claim to love.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her ‘rubbish’, as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

I love being romanced by their promises of protecting birds and treating their workers well with their shade-grown, pesticide-free beans.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2022

Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2021

But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.

From Reuters Sep. 6, 2021

Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2021

Woolf began coming in regularly, parking his Stetson on the table and pointing Greenberg’s nose in the Racing Form while he romanced her.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

It’s part of a larger pattern of romancing younger men on the national and international stage, often ones he has attacked.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2025

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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