longtime companion

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But when it comes to extended relationships we’ve got: lover, domestic partner, significant other, longtime companion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

Herrick’s longtime companion Kitty Hylton said he died at a nursing home in Rich Creek, Virginia, surrounded by people who loved him.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2024

In 2007 Mr. Bennett married a third time, to his longtime companion, Susan Crow, a teacher four decades his junior whom he had met in the late 1980s.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Stewart’s longtime companion, Amanda Wyatt, said two days before his funeral that it was too soon for the family to process what comes next.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2023

Her real name was Mary Ann Evans, and she had come with her longtime companion, George Lewes, who wrote about natural history and was an advocate of Darwinism.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman