domestic partner
Example Sentences
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States enforce these restraining orders, she said, and at least 48 states authorize taking away guns from people who are judged to pose a danger to a domestic partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Such an order typically requires a court finding that the person “represents a credible threat” to a domestic partner.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2023
Howard K. Stern — Smith's attorney, agent and domestic partner — continued to fight on behalf of her estate but in 2011, the Supreme Court posthumously ruled against Smith.
From Salon ● May 17, 2023
Another described a nurse referring to her domestic partner, now husband, as a “baby daddy.”
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
It would be just as safe and sensible for the merchant to neglect his cash book, as for his domestic partner, who undertakes to do her business properly, to fail to keep her cash book.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
