infatuation
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A not-so-closeted homosexual, he also waxes lyrical about his infatuation with a young Yale student, played by a bottle-blonde Margaret Qualley, and shares drinks with "Charlotte's Web" author E.B.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
By the way, Ng confirms that bald eagle infatuation is very much an American enterprise.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Qian wrote poems about social responsibility, with lines such as: "We must love the elderly with the infatuation of a first romance."
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
And I hug her back—not with the girl-next-door kind of infatuation I maybe would’ve had in the past, but with a sincerity that I hadn’t felt before.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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