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affinity

[uh-fin-i-tee] / əˈfɪn ɪ ti /




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Nolan isn’t the only director with an affinity for large format film and analog media.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

“Our digital initiatives, new boutique openings and strategic marketing investments continued to drive increased awareness and widespread affinity for the Aritzia brand,” Wong said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

At this point in his public arc, his affinity for the material is more like a colonizing claim.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Sebastiano Barassi, head of Henry Moore collections and programmes, said the artist's deep affinity with the natural world made Wakehurst and Kew "ideal settings" for his work.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Sitting nearby and absorbed in a book is James Schuyler, a poet of the New York School with whom Porter shared intellectual and romantic affinities, and who lived with the Porters for an extended period.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

But the non-college-educated voters who have traditionally been his bedrock supporters are facing so much financial strain these days that his cultural affinities, even when they’re somewhat authentic, just don’t cut it.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2026

Kurds, while mostly Sunni, share cultural and linguistic affinities with Persians and have historically had less friction with the Iranian state than with fellow Kurds in Iraq and Turkey.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

One of the greatest plays of our time, Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” confronts Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” with our own elective affinities.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

She was touched, sitting across from him in a cafe and feeling between them the warm affinities of something shared.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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