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sweetheart

[sweet-hahrt] / ˈswitˌhɑrt /


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Mum Linda said: "My sweetheart boy could never do no wrong, my life will never be the same with you not here. My heart will forever be broken."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Born Mary Jo Campbell on July 26, 1934, MJ married her high school sweetheart, whom she divorced two months later.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

He’s married to his childhood sweetheart, has three adorable sons and a picture of his mother tattooed on his back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 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

Her mouth is like a miniature pink sweetheart pastry from one of the patisserie windows in Trianon.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

She said she and Fox were "childhood sweethearts" who were planning to get married, which happened while he was in a coma in hospital.

From BBC Apr. 24, 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

Dusty and Ruby were adolescent sweethearts, but the audience doesn’t need to know the whole backstory to guess why they broke up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 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




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