dear

"To the sister Republic of El Salvador, which has played a vital role in our fight against crime, dear President Bukele, I send you a huge, heartfelt hug," Fernandez told reporters at the inauguration.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

His teenage daughter joined the crew, holding on for dear life as the roaring watercraft stood up on its tail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I have no children, and I’ve always planned for whatever I leave to go to my brother, a dear friend and a couple of charities I care about.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

"The nation unites on this day in the longing for our dear ones," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faced calls from protesters for an independent state inquiry into security failures that day.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Andrew! I was so hoping you had found your way here! I heard you had an unfortunate attack, dear boy.”

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

“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

Poor dears, that must have been so unspeakably horrid for them.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2018

By ingesting the chirpy little dears, Bergenkind seeks to internalize the little guys’ sunny joyfulness.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

“And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,” Chacko said grandly, lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Meanwhile, what got cheaper diverged sharply from what got dearer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the money would not go far, he said, as costs have gone up and "everything has gone dearer".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Of course Gaza is dearer than here, but there, there is no home left, nothing."

From Barron's ● May 9, 2026

“The freedom I had before the money was paid was dearer to me,” Ms. Jacobs wrote.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

He promised to write often, but I longed for dearer words from him.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"My dearest wish is that the decision encourages other women who up until now have not had the courage to take this step," Lainault said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

Over dinner recently, I got to talking with one of my dearest friends — let’s call him Paul — about relationships.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

All I could do was pray that somehow my dearest brother had been spared or had found a way to escape.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson