love affair

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Yet for as long as America’s love affair with baseball has lasted, the sport’s practitioners knew shockingly little about how the game was truly played for most of that time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I really did have a great rapport with them, and they would pull on my beard, and we really had a wonderful love affair.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

The Vanguard option is the modern-day incarnation of the storied Vanguard 500 fund, which kicked off investors’ love affair with index investing in the 1970s.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

In an interview published to mark Massie's retirement as The Scotsman's chief literary critic, David Robinson outlined what he called the author's "love affair" with the paper, as well as the scale of his output.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

“Ernest’s love affair with the deuteron beam was legendary,” Luis Alvarez would observe later.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik