sweetheart
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Dolly Parton — the “queen of country,” benevolent ruler of Dollywood and America’s true sweetheart — died at age 80 last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Steven, now 35 and married to his high school sweetheart with a toddler, is a partner at Arena Capital, a small real-estate private-equity firm that invests in the Hudson Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Going back to that game in New Jersey last week, Aston Villa captain and Tartan Army sweetheart John McGinn was the one to start on the bench.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
He married his college sweetheart, with whom he would have triplet sons, and joined Exxon as a research engineer in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
“Oh, sweetheart, I know it’s difficult being out of school, but believe me, you will be fine one day, and then you will go back to being a regular kid.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
They were, she said, "true childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
People also meet their sweethearts in college or at jobs that require similar qualifications.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
"It's here that we still meet our sweethearts, that we swap our numbers scribbled on little bits of paper," says fisherman Paulin Agbokounou.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Jackie and Patrick McDonald, high school sweethearts from Hesperia, came more than four decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
