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We met on “Cuckoo’s Nest” and we’ve been dear, dear buddies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us,” they said in a statement published on her Instagram account.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
In a post to X on Monday, the "Turn Back Time" singer wrote: "My dear Bob has gone up to heaven. Knowing him, he's bringing sequins, beads and his sketch pad. Good nite sweet Prince."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
He wasn't quite ready to accept he had lost so many dear friends at once.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“On the radio this morning, dear, I thought I heard them say that it is February the thirteenth today. Did I hear right?”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
“We didn’t keep that,” she said, “but I loved learning what Lydia would do if she could. ‘Eyes forward dears, we are not sitting comfortably in a class room.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
I would think to myself, Oh, my dears, if you could only see who you are speaking to and how hard they work.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2024
"Goodbye my dears... You will all go home... You will be together," Nouman says, waving a bandaged hand.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
By ingesting the chirpy little dears, Bergenkind seeks to internalize the little guys’ sunny joyfulness.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016
“Fred, George, I’m sorry, dears, but Remus is arriving tonight, so Bill will have to squeeze in with you two.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Meanwhile, what got cheaper diverged sharply from what got dearer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"You can give away lots of points, but if you're £5 dearer than your competitor, people will swap anyway."
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
"Of course Gaza is dearer than here, but there, there is no home left, nothing."
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
But in 2023, artists also took another step in reclaiming aspects of our humanity and holding them a little dearer.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
“The dearest things of all to them are fantastic goals, much more important than their daily bread.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"It is truly my dearest wish that this opens the way for other women who might not have dared until now," the 59-year-old, who lives in Anglet in southwestern France, said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Hayden was one of my dearest and closest friends that I loved and cared about for the last 8 years,” Zach said in his statement to TMZ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The 43-year-old said his pug, called Alan Shearer after the ex-England football captain, was his "dearest friend" and "guardian angel".
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
“It can never be the same again. I’ve lost my dearest friend,” sighed Jo.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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