divorce
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One wildly successful creator, Maya, recalled receiving direct messages from fans that her art was the only thing getting them through death, divorce and other catastrophic life events.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
But alliances can withstand a lot of friction—physical proximity alone probably makes a wholesale U.S.-Canada divorce impossible—and escalation isn’t guaranteed.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Watch: Eighteen-year-old woman argues her case for a divorce, saying her "honour and dignity have already been ruined"
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet by late 2024 — not long after she’d dropped an LP, “What Now,” inspired in part by a divorce — the singer had started thinking about the Shakes again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Just two years prior, my parents had gotten their divorce in hopes that my mom could secure a green card through her.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
It's a sizeable sum to part with when divorces can be expensive.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
But what if she divorces her second husband?
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Many painted a picture of "destroyed" lives: divorces, losing custody of their children, prison, psychiatric hospitals, and astronomical medical bills in the hope of regaining "a normal, meaningful life."
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
“Having gone through two divorces herself,” her law firm’s webpage bio reads, “Dana feels she brings a special nuance to her family law cases.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
I would like to let the record show that Ali and Shohreh probably had the most amicable divorce in the history of divorces.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
I was 39, already twice divorced and desperate to outrun the pain of losing my husband and three stepchildren just five months prior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
William had advised him not to rush the relationship with the divorced American former television actress three years his senior, Harry said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The 36-year-old was born in Birkenhead but moved to Wales with his mother Christine after his parents divorced when he was two.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Bezos made a very hefty profit on the sale of the 9,240-square-foot home, having purchased it for $37.5 million in 2019, the same year he divorced Scott.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Woodhull divorced Colonel Blood in 1876, and the sisters took the money and moved to Europe the following year.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Tom Segura is finally addressing the news that he and Christina Pazsitzky are divorcing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But divorcing a film like this from the times in which we’re absorbing it is short of impossible, no matter how much of an escape it provides for 109 minutes.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
It seems as if her parents were perpetually fighting their own marital war of attrition, eventually divorcing in the 1970s after their children had all moved out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The pair announced their separation in 2024, with a spokesperson saying "their marriage is over and they are in the process of divorcing".
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
I saw parents announce to their bawling children that they were divorcing.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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