breakup
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If the deal falls through or is still unsettled by June 2027, it could pay Warner a $7 billion breakup fee or renegotiate the deadline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Adding drama to the couple’s onscreen breakup, the actors recently got married in real life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The only dance record on the shortlist, Nia Archives' second album traces the arc of a relationship from the first flush of love to a breakup so ugly that her partner calls the police.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
A decade ago, Chey Tae-won—the billionaire atop blockbuster memory-chip maker SK Hynix—announced the breakup of his 27-year marriage to the daughter of a past president in a three-page letter to a South Korean newspaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Not as powerful as a nineties R&B breakup song, but stronger than a Taylor Swift.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
He recounts how he used his Arsenal fandom to find acceptance at school, to escape from his parents’ divorce and to numb the pain of breakups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
There are famous breakups, and there are ones that upset the universe’s parasocial order.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
But expanding rights piecemeal creates a nightmare for divorce lawyers, who found themselves building the plane in midair with gay breakups in the aughts and early 2010s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
A lot of my friends are getting married, of course, but many of them have also been dealing with heavy personal news: breakups, layoffs and the deaths of family members and friends.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
It was honestly worse than any of the breakups.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
