sweetheart
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Steven, now 35 and married to his high school sweetheart with a toddler, is a partner at Arena Capital, a small real-estate private-equity firm that invests in the Hudson Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“He was a top of the line up hitter with a humble attitude in the 3 years he played against him. Rest in Peace sweetheart and endless prayers for his family.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Haaland's girlfriend is childhood sweetheart Isabel Haugseng Johansen.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He married his college sweetheart, with whom he would have triplet sons, and joined Exxon as a research engineer in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Father’s not very open about his feelings, but he’s the same sweetheart he’s always been.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
They were, she said, "true childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
People also meet their sweethearts in college or at jobs that require similar qualifications.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
"It's here that we still meet our sweethearts, that we swap our numbers scribbled on little bits of paper," says fisherman Paulin Agbokounou.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Dusty and Ruby were adolescent sweethearts, but the audience doesn’t need to know the whole backstory to guess why they broke up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
It was one of Mom’s pictures that Grandma had saved from when Mom and Marcus were high school sweethearts.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
