boyfriend
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Thriller author Lucy Foley was given the reins to the character, after promising to not make her young or give her a boyfriend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Released last October, the bittersweet song details Langley's suspicions that her boyfriend is about to run off with another woman.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Dr Mark Deakin was described in court as Letby's "boyfriend"
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But maybe I want to be friends with a boy without everyone assuming he’s my boyfriend.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
“All the girls want to bring their boyfriends and husbands,” said Laura Wilson, founder of Natural Pilates, a studio in Los Angeles and New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Wives read everything, girlfriends read everything, boyfriends read everything.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Visitors who come over — friends, boyfriends — often ask me about it.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
