partner

Example Sentences

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Pregnancy would suggest that something unusual happened, like she was about to give birth and her partner died or left.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

“If you didn’t have a type A personality and if you weren’t a bit of a perfectionist, you weren’t going to be a partner at Cravath,” Widen said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Now Stafford and his partner, Detective Julie Evans, hauled six boxes of records and physical evidence into the police department conference room and spread them across the table.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

The two weeks of leave for a woman and her partner is paid at the statutory level of just more than £194 per week, or 90% of weekly pay if that's lower.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Obviously, those future versions of ourselves had known that we were going to end up in the stupid partner program, so why hadn’t they just told us what was coming?

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin