affair
Example Sentences
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As he grew older, and cooking and cleaning became harder, his labor of love became a family affair, with his sons regularly helping out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
So, what is this based on, and will their love affair last?
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Australia's ballad "Eclipse" evokes a love affair between planets.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
“Kafkaesque” ends with a chapter on Milena Jesenská, the only translator of his work Kafka met, and a woman with whom he had an ardent, if mostly long-distance, love affair.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
A typical four-hour game was transformed by the Teletype process into an eight- or nine-hour affair.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing affair
The Poet X
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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