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valentine

[val-uhn-tahyn] / ˈvæl ənˌtaɪn /






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Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Barry Mazor’s “Blood Harmony” is long overdue, a rigorously researched narrative of the duo’s fascinatingly zig-zaggy 50-plus-year career, as well as a loving valentine to the pair’s enduring musical power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

It’s a thrilling and fascinating film, and a quiet valentine to the vanished skyscrapers.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020

As the group’s musical valentine to their American rock ‘n’ roll roots, “Rubber Soul” begins, pointedly, with the ear-catching flourish of George Harrison’s bluesy guitar, which kick-starts “Drive My Car” into life.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020

He kissed her chin to seal the valentine.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Feb. 14 was just a few days away, so the first action Rickman and other students took was delivering hundreds of valentines to the governor, expressing their support for university employees.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2025

Its tone is admiring — as the series title implies, “American Masters” documentaries tend to be valentines, and there are more supporters than critics onscreen here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Films about filmmakers, especially in recent years, tend to lean into self-congratulation — misty-eyed valentines to the magic of moviemaking, and to the noble if flawed souls who strive to put their art onscreen.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Hallmark, which began offering Valentine’s Day cards in 1913, estimates that today, 145 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, not including the kids’ valentines popular for classroom exchanges.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

It wasn’t that I was scared of not getting any valentines.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy


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