affianced

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However, usually the affianced couple can stick it out long enough to break up in private once the show is completely done.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2024

Machine Gun Kelly proposed to Fox in January 2022, after which the affianced couple allegedly drank each other’s blood.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023

The affianced co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” it turns out, have also been named visiting fellows to Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2017

Being gay is a great thing to be ostentatious about, although using the correct pronouns to refer to your affianced hardly reaches “ostentatious” levels, in my book.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2017

Even in cases where a chief's daughter is given in alliance to some powerful leader, compulsion is never used, and the affianced are given every opportunity to become acquainted with each other.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.