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marry

[mar-ee, mer-ee] / ˈmær i, ˈmɛr i /


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As friends find jobs, marry and move on, many remain dependent on their parents.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

As the court’s majority acknowledged in Obergefell, its eventual, corrective ruling in favor of the freedom to marry came only after extensive “democratic discourse”:

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

Designing a new EV assembly line from the ground up will allow Ford to marry a fresh concept for a vehicle with a solid cost structure, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

If you and your girlfriend decided to marry, she could still receive survivor benefits based on her late husband’s work record, because she would be marrying at age 60 or older.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Mortals began asking the spirits for advice—who to marry, what kind of work to do, where to live.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

If your daughter is married or marries sometime in the future, she can decide how much of her inheritance will be commingled with her spouse’s finances.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

By the time Abigail marries her third husband, mild-mannered Lucas, and the couple go on to have three sons, Daphne has grown a protective shell.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Their worlds collide when Pooja marries Arun – Kamlesh's brother-in-law that she reared as her own son.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

Munn’s acerbic, ambitious Levitt is a woman from humble beginnings who marries into wealth, only to become a social pariah after a sinister plot involving her husband is revealed.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 2026

When she marries, her mother won’t be there.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

She had married Günther Stern, a fellow student of philosophy, in 1929; as their relationship was ending in 1936, she met Blücher at one of her Paris lectures on antisemitism.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

He told Ugen he was "married to the movement" and his forebears had fought against China.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Now 39, she is married with two children and lives in Washington state.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

That would keep you below the married threshold for the Medicare surcharges known as IRMAA.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Both Floyd and Lloyd married Indianapolis wives: strictly city girls who’d gone to Butler University and bobbed their hair.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Bella DePaulo, a former University of Virginia professor who has authored books on single living, said society has changed since the regulation was established, with more people getting married later or not marrying at all.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

I am considering marrying my girlfriend and have several questions about how it might affect her Social Security and Supplemental Security Income.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

He is marrying the chief of staff to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and lives in a San Francisco mansion not far from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

After marrying in 2003, the couple lived in Epsom and across Surrey, before settling near Redhill.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

He’s mostly known today for marrying a woman who was already married and for dying from hitting his head on a doorframe.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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