love
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What are other ways to say love?
Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, or romantic feelings for another person, etc. Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause.
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Premiering Sunday on PBS, “Trespasses,” a four-part adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s 2022 debut novel, is a story of love in a time of choler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
You might remember Pamela as the killer in the original film—a trivia fact horror fans love to share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Griffin called Chappelle’s case a tricky one because while she doesn’t love his views, she still considers him to be a friend.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Maddy would love that we were all challenging ourselves."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Even though he’d never been on the receiving end of love, he felt it deeply for the world around him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
“If you have something cool and he loves it, it’s going to get made,” said Greg Gilreath, a horror producer who has worked with Spooky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Evans said that Russell "loves to celebrate him and she's his biggest supporter", and was "just cheering, whooping, hands in the air" after his award wins.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
When Instagram launched in 2010, Walsh began posting one of his early loves — only this time, it was morning surf conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Not everybody loves her shtick, but at least we all got the joke.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2017
“She loves science, especially everything to do with space. She’s a huge Star Trek fan and wants to be a pilot someday, just like her uncle.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
“She loved the job so much that she put her all into it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As frontotemporal dementia degrades social awareness, loved ones and neuroscientists confront the heartbreaking boundary between a changing mind and the enduring self.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
For troops’ families, such abstractions, repeated in media discourse, have concrete consequences when their loved ones don’t come home on time.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hatter says there can be very different and unpredictable responses to grief, including a condition known as "bereavement mania" where someone can seem inappropriately hyper or even euphoric after the loss of a loved one.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Clare loved the chase of Progress, that much he knew—ushering souls, tending to his garden, tidying his cottage.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"I'm loving it," he says about playing non-league 19 years after Mourinho sent him on for his Chelsea debut in the 89th minute against Everton on the final day of the 2006-07 Premier League season.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"The athletes are loving it. It's a different energy, a different vibe."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
For a satire of human arrogance, this book retains a loving center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In doing so, it saves cats and sets them on a path to a loving home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The ideas of parent responsibility, loving encouragement, constant repetition, etc., are some of the special features of the Suzuki approach.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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