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[boi-frend] / ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd /


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She would like to set up home with her boyfriend, who lives in the eastern city of Valencia, but the couple says apartment prices are out of their reach.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

She and her boyfriend, Cheng Ming, plan to study AI in hopes of finding tech jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

But she and her boyfriend of five years are nowhere near thinking of settling down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Insurance worker Emily Moretta, 26, has been with her boyfriend for two years and says they still haven't explicitly told each other their salaries and "he doesn't know how much I make".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Whenever Leo smiled and joked, he looked too much like Sammy, his great-grandfather...Hazel’s first boyfriend, back in 1942.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Wives read everything, girlfriends read everything, boyfriends read everything.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

“But what if we don’t get boyfriends immediately?”

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence


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