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as in mated
to take a spouse she had always believed she would never marry, but fate proved her wrong
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to come together to form a single unit white wine and chicken marry especially well
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Recent Examples of married
Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026 Swalwell, 45 and married, had a widely whispered about reputation for showering inappropriate and unwelcome attention on younger women. —Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026 The two married in 1953 and had seven children in 10 years, raising them on the Upper East Side of New York. —Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for married
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Michael Alfonso, who is married to Duffy’s daughter, raised $601,290 during the first quarter of 2026, according to campaign finance filings. —Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026 Swalwell, 45 and married, had a widely whispered about reputation for showering inappropriate and unwelcome attention on younger women. —Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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Hers is a life devoted to art despite the fact she was yanked from school and married off at sixteen. —Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026 The two married in 1953 and had seven children in 10 years, raising them on the Upper East Side of New York. —Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for married
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The accumulation of taxes is also a major reason why the Bennifer marital mansion sat on the market, per Realtor.— India Roby, Architectural Digest, 14 Apr. 2026
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Lenny Hochstein, who kept the multimillion dollar marital home on Star Island in the bitter split, alerted the Miami Beach Police Department.— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
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Murakami connected for a two-run home run to right, which went 425 feet, in the fifth inning.— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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Near the end of this complex six-hundred-page book, Yamashita switches to a collective pronoun, suggesting that a common dream has connected her characters.— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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That gender balance, Hatters-Friedman said, makes filicide unique among murders, which are mainly committed by males.— Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
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None of the defendants committed murders in prison during that time, Edens testified.— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026
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During the series, the teams combined for an NHL-record 45 goals in the first four games of a seven-game series, and 312 penalty minutes (158 of those coming in Philadelphia's 8-4 Game 3 victory, which put the Flyers ahead 3-0 in the series).— Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Creators on DeviantArt enjoy the convenience, security, and user-friendliness of modern internet retail platforms combined with the broad reach and audience-building features of mainstream social media.— The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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That motor comes mated to a centrifugal clutch with a CVT transmission and … wait for it … a belt final drive on an aluminum swingarm.— New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2026
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Between 1995 and 2014, the chimps maintained long-standing friendships across three distinct clusters that mated, hunted and protected each other.— Ryan Brennan April 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
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His record as head baseball coach of LSU of 870-330-3 is likely never to be matched, including his winning the college World Series five times.— George Solomon, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
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The traditional urban firehouse is an almost perfect neighbor — matched in scale and material to the predominantly residential neighborhood while using subtle details that indicate its status as an official civic structure.— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
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The Days of Our Lives actress, 38, is engaged to Danny Cipriani.— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
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The couple's milestone comes seven months after becoming engaged.— Christina Perrier, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
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Our hearts break for the victims even as Michael’s music is fused to our souls.— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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In his text, Andreessen—who founded Netscape, the first commercial browser company, in the 1990s—frames technological progress as a moral good, a struggle in which, the manifesto claims with modernist gusto, beauty and progress are fused.— Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Married.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/married. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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