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While speaking to The Cut in 2025, Ortega recalled going through belongings at the property when she discovered an old toothbrush that had belonged to an ex.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
And just like that first-season turnaround in a pub dart game, where Ted shows up Rebecca’s vituperative ex, Rupert, good old Coach Lasso leaps in to caramelize Alice’s insult into golden, heartwarming sunshine.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
Laura Overdeck arrived on the scene at one point and told cops she wanted her soon-to-be ex gone, the Post reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Mother Susan told Panorama the CMS's efforts to chase her ex partner for money owed had been "a waste of everybody's time... a waste of everyone's money".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
I know guys who are grossed-out by the idea of dating a friend’s ex.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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“Integrating Europe’s capital markets to better channel high household savings towards productive investments in the EU will be essential,” ex- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi concluded in his landmark 2024 report on continental competitiveness.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
He established that Natalie's dog River was a puppy of her ex- boyfriend's dog and that the former couple had, for a time, lived together in her Silverwood Green home.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The iHeartMedia release added that the ex- “GMA” personalities — who have since been replaced — will work together on additional iHeartPodcasts programming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
An ex- commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army was also sanctioned.
From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023
Palmares was just the most visible example of the maroon communities that ex- isted in all the sugar lands.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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