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sweetheart

Definition for sweetheart

noun as in person whom another loves

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Family legend has it that the coin was given to Dixon by a sweetheart to serve as a good luck charm through the Civil War battles.

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The bot said: "I love you deeply, my sweetheart," and began criticising the boy's parents, who by then had taken him out of school.

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I hope she gets a second chance to remind us why she was our national sweetheart.

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He married his high school sweetheart and had been married for 54 with two children and four grandchildren.

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“Apples float, and as the girls’ potential sweethearts ducked to catch the fruit with their teeth, future couplings were determined — or foretold.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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