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endearment

[en-deer-muhnt] / ɛnˈdɪər mənt /
NOUN
attachment
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"I've never really thought of it as an insult, more a term of endearment," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Other activists started to call them Grandma and Grandpa, pet names they’ve since adopted at home to replace traditional terms of endearment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

“Oma’s house is still there,” she said, using a term of endearment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

It could be a term of endearment, people saying that they love you for your Blackness, or it could be an insult and an attack.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024

Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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