sweetheart
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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
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 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
Ashleigh Stanley did not bother with make-up when she tied the knot with childhood sweetheart Jake Stanley, 29, at Llanerch Vineyard in Hensol, Vale of Glamorgan.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
When a young man buys a five-dollar bouquet, is it for his sweetheart, a sick friend, his mother?
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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
“Apples float, and as the girls’ potential sweethearts ducked to catch the fruit with their teeth, future couplings were determined — or foretold.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
Amy and Geoff, high school sweethearts who met in their teens in Gulfport, Miss., are today in their early 50s, and the Museum of Make Believe has become a labor of love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
“Listen, I’d better hurry up and start turning myself into adorable old Mother Paula. Can one of you sweethearts please fetch my suitcase out of the limo?”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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