suitor
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Penelope is later seen declaring that "Ithaca's king is coming back", but her main suitor Antinous refuses to believe it.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
The example is from Ozu’s 1929 “Days of Youth,” in which a suitor gets paint on his hand, knows it, and gets panicky trying to hide it from his would-be sweetheart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
But his girlfriend broke up with him and he decided that quitting his job and sitting in the family hunting cabin in the woods would make him a better suitor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
After such a steep selloff in Brown-Forman’s stock, there is reason to believe it has become attractive to a suitor.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
The list of all such sequential orderings is below, with the number 1 representing, as before, the suitor Myrtle would most prefer, 2 her second choice, etc.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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