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[fond] / fɒnd /


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Over the decades, fond memories start to jumble and fade.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Lynch was fond of the straightforwardness of a diner, and he considered them to be ideal for creative thinking and work meetings.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The president, played by Jeff Daniels, emerges as focused, canny, charming and witty in this fond portrayal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

But wait, as our hard-boiled citizen investigator is fond of saying.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

“I wish I had gotten to meet Graybeak. My son was very fond of her.”

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Nat., fonds latin, No. 4270, fol. 138-9, 213.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

The fonds are the transverse valleys just mentioned—the channels, for the most part, of small water-courses which discharge themselves into the sea.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

I wish our fonds were well oot of them, and in yird and stane, which is a constansie. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt

Ingredients: Veal, sweetbread, calf's brains, ox palates, mushrooms, fonds d'artichauds, cocks' combs, eggs, Parmesan, bread crumbs.

From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Mrs. W. G. Waters

Some day, said our colleague, the infernal genius who directed those intrigues and le bailleur de fonds will be known.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant

If this was his goodbye, he couldn't have imagined a fonder one.

From BBC May 23, 2026

Those fonder of Hawthorne the magical realist will have plenty to appreciate as well, not least of which that Donatello’s true ancestry—whether human or faun—is never definitively established.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Growing fonder and fonder of Maude, Harold shares with her that when he isn’t attending funerals for fun, he likes to go to demolition sites and scrap yards.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2026

You can sit this one out, and see if absence makes the sisters grow fonder of each other.

From MarketWatch Nov. 27, 2025

His voice softens when he talks about her—he is no longer the toughened leader of this compound, but an old man, reflecting on some fonder past.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Former talk-show host Winfrey wrote that one of her fondest memories with Parton was "having a hoot and a holler while wearing Bob Mackie gowns on her show Dolly".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

In her fondest hopes, the commemoration of Global Beatles Day presents an annual opportunity for recommitting ourselves to the band’s ideals, which McCartney sagely explained in the “Anthology” documentary series.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2026

In your fondest dreams, what would you do if you could join the animals?

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

"It was a council-run site, so a lot of my youth was here, and I've got nothing but the fondest memories of Skegness."

From BBC May 25, 2025

Indeed, today, those evenings rank amongst my fondest memories from those times.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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