endearment
Example Sentences
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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
“He’ll look at you quizzically, but also with endearment, knowing you are a little carbon-based unit that would like to become his friend,” said David Kornblum, president of Tsuburaya Fields Media and Pictures Entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 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
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
So I could call Dayi Jamsheed my dayi, but he could call me dayi also, as a term of endearment.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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