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boyfriend

[boi-frend] / ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd /


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When residents bring home a boyfriend, Sister Rita vets them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 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

Pratt rose to prominence in 2007 when he joined the cast of The Hills, a spin-off of the MTV reality show Laguna Beach, as the boyfriend of Heidi Montag.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

“Don’t bother. It’s obvious you’d rather be with your boyfriend than me.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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