sweetheart
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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
She married her college sweetheart Larry King in 1965 and they divorced in 1987.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Dedicated to his childhood sweetheart Paola Pugliese, it's a testament to their 34-year marriage.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
“But tell me, sweetheart, how Angelo’s making out?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
Behind them came the soldiers, shoulders squared, jaws set, elbows clutched by the mothers and sweethearts they were leaving behind, marching through a shower of tears, cheers, and pride.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
