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divorce

[dih-vawrs] / dɪˈvɔrs /




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“Yeah, he had a daughter. She had a heart problem and she died and then he got divorced. My mom says it was because they were both too sad.”

From Literature

“These records can be important for understanding inherited health conditions or for legal purposes. Personal documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates and divorce decrees should be kept indefinitely.”

From MarketWatch

When I was 8, my parents divorced, and Mom had to bring up three children alone.

From The Wall Street Journal

At 49, Jacqui Furneaux, a nurse and mother of two from Bristol, had an affair which ended her marriage, but using her divorce settlement to fund a journey around the world, changed her life forever.

From BBC

And she said kind of jokingly, “We didn’t divorce.”

From The Wall Street Journal