romance
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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
They may have been right about the romance.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Those movies may have helped scare younger viewers away from romance at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
But romance is different from other trackable behaviors like sleep or flatulence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
He thought this quite a nice gesture, but the romance was lost on Ruby.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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War-torn romances are nothing new, but in Mr. Aris’s story it’s not the shattered buildings that constitute the real wreckage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
Many shows feature wild, fast-moving plot lines, about topics ranging from secret billionaire husbands to forbidden romances, that are designed to keep viewers glued to their screens.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
Her opinions were rarely sought; she had no known romances to feed gossip.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
Part of Faye’s anime backstory involves her being romanced by a con man who fakes his death to saddle her with his insurmountable debts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 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
Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2021
He dated models and actresses and romanced his stunning American wife after standing behind her in line to use the phone at Heathrow Airport.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
“I wanted to be Warren Beatty, not date him,” Keaton confessed, romancing fellow artists as long as their relationship was mutually stimulating and then after that, remaining friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
Katie was annoyed at this tendency and kept warning Francie to tell the plain truth and to stop romancing.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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