significant other
Example Sentences
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However, if you don’t have a significant other who relies on your income and you do have enough savings and no debts, it may be less useful.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Participants also answered questions about how satisfied they felt with their spouse or significant other, how much conflict they experienced in communication, and how confident they were that their relationship would last.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2026
The FBI thought the lead was promising enough to launch an undercover investigation, people familiar with it said, with a covert agent befriending the woman’s significant other to elicit new clues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
When the family goes, it’s my wife and I, four kids, the kids have two husbands and a significant other, and three grandkids, so that’s 12 around the table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
What they found was there was a decided increase in the sense of urgency when the text came from a significant other, as opposed to a friend or more distant acquaintance.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
