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Moreover, it’s a refreshing look at the miscues of teen romance, a cliché-free portrait of the ’70s, and a sketch of beach-bum existence before waterfront property became synonymous with luxury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

One of her biggest writers is the author-activist Glennon Doyle, who has chronicled addiction, divorce and an unexpected romance with soccer player Abby Wambach across a string of blockbuster self-help memoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

They may have been right about the romance.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Hansard had a storied career in music across more than three decades, including winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008 with Marketa Irglova, which featured in the low-budget musical romance film Once.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Connor says, “What’s a pinball?” at the same time as I snort and say, “Really? You took her to the pinball museum? Is that your idea of romance now, Jack?”

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

More recently, the character opened a B&B and had several romances.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

In the end, Nick and Charlie decide to give their relationship another shot, confident that their love can defy the conventional wisdom that teen romances rarely last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Plus, the Pentagon will start screening servicemembers for low testosterone, and China restricts chatbot romances to boost birthrates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

But while Penn's romances have had their well-chronicled highs and lows, his acting career only followed one trajectory: up.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

He takes me to Mexico, as in drugstore romances.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

I love being romanced by their promises of protecting birds and treating their workers well with their shade-grown, pesticide-free beans.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

‘Rebecca’ A naive Joan Fontaine is romanced by widower Laurence Olivier and menaced by Olivier’s live-in housekeeper, Judith Anderson, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning 1940 suspense tale based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

Ms. Setouchi described her “Genji” translation as her “life-project,” but said she initially struggled to connect with the book’s female characters, who were alternately romanced and discarded by the young prince.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021

But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021

Woolf began coming in regularly, parking his Stetson on the table and pointing Greenberg’s nose in the Racing Form while he romanced her.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But Mosley’s nonagenarian is less interested in corporate intrigue than romancing Oliver’s 93-year-old grandmother, Brenda, in his Upper West Side mansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee