affair
Example Sentences
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Announcing Seidman's expulsion, South Africa's foreign affairs ministry said his actions "represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege".
From BBC
Ryan Barber is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Washington, D.C. bureau, where he covers the Justice Department and legal affairs.
I like that Lee threw some elbows to insist that her last novel, about an older woman’s affair with the lead singer of a boy band, was not generically a “romance,” thankyouverymuch.
From Los Angeles Times
“That is a truly shocking state of affairs.”
Patterson has played a prominent role in Fujitsu's response to the Horizon scandal, representing the company at the public inquiry into the affair, and at House of Commons select committee hearings.
From BBC
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