affair
Example Sentences
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It’s the latest chapter in the decades-long love affair between Hollywood and the fast-food industry.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Noakes, from Cardiff, said she and her new husband Lester are usually "quiet people" and only invited about 35 people to their wedding day in a small and intimate affair.
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
It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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