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amour

[uh-moor] / əˈmʊər /


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Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

“Congratulations mon amour de la vie,” she wrote to Menendez, according to the indictment.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

The charge-sheet said that after the couple received the car, Mrs Menendez texted her husband to say: "Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes."

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023

“Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes,” Nadine Menendez texted her husband, along with a heart emoji.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

The amour of the brothers with the San Roque girl was known, and also the well-founded jealousy of the patron, who at first endeavoured to obtain the engine-driver’s discharge by the means already mentioned.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Nos amours, the good people of Montreal called their team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The music you hear is contemporary with Irène's life, so Charles Trenet's song "Que reste-e-il de nos amours?" is one he wrote prior to 1942, so it would be contemporary.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023

If the forensically brilliant and hard-minded Trevor-Roper had fallen for him, why not Peters’s many amours?

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020

When asked how long she plans to avoid amours, Milano replied that she didn’t know.

From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019

I, sinner as I am, and uncharitably reviled by your highness as an accomplice of I know not what amours, scorn the allurements with which it has pleased thee to tempt mine honesty.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford




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