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[boi-frend] / ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd /


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In court Wednesday, O’Brien said Rinderknecht knew the area well because he had lived there a few years earlier with his boyfriend, who had been renting a large house with a pool.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Hall describes stumbling on the ChatGPT logs of her boyfriend of 5 months and finding that he had asked the LLM to decide, based on the concerns he input, whether he should continue their relationship.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, Aniston also spoke highly about her boyfriend in a November 2025 interview with Elle.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

“The fact that I was a bad boyfriend a decade ago, that’s something I’ve talked about openly at length for quite some time in multiple places,” he told Hayes on Thursday.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

They settled down in New Mexico, but the boyfriend was sent to Vietnam and never made it home.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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