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Bigelow, a Greenwich Village pharmacy that made the plastic headbands Bessette was so fond of, reported a 500% sales increase since 2023, and Selima Optique have rereleased the style Bessette wore because of popular demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Lynch was fond of the straightforwardness of a diner, and he considered them to be ideal for creative thinking and work meetings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The president, played by Jeff Daniels, emerges as focused, canny, charming and witty in this fond portrayal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But wait, as our hard-boiled citizen investigator is fond of saying.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

“I am very fond of you children, and I feel responsible for your welfare.”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

In alienating the capital, they might stipulate à fonds perdu, as they thought best.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

I wish our fonds were well oot of them, and in yird and stane, which is a constansie. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt

Some day, said our colleague, the infernal genius who directed those intrigues and le bailleur de fonds will be known.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant

Ingredients: Veal, sweetbread, calf's brains, ox palates, mushrooms, fonds d'artichauds, cocks' combs, eggs, Parmesan, bread crumbs.

From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Mrs. W. G. Waters

Nat., fonds latin, No. 4270, fol. 125-8, 139.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

“I think there’s an argument that says absence makes the heart grow fonder with some of these. We’ll see.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

If this was his goodbye, he couldn't have imagined a fonder one.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

Those fonder of Hawthorne the magical realist will have plenty to appreciate as well, not least of which that Donatello’s true ancestry—whether human or faun—is never definitively established.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Growing fonder and fonder of Maude, Harold shares with her that when he isn’t attending funerals for fun, he likes to go to demolition sites and scrap yards.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

His voice softens when he talks about her—he is no longer the toughened leader of this compound, but an old man, reflecting on some fonder past.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Some of Debbie Israel’s fondest memories as a young girl are the times she spent with her father at synagogue praying on the Sabbath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

"My fondest memories are of him travelling on the buses wherever he went."

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

In a personal tribute, Jacob recalled one of his fondest memories of his friend, from the night India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

Among the fondest of his high school memories was the day his friend Nancy Sinatra invited her father to sing in their school auditorium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Some of my fondest memories as a youngster were from my times at church.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry