fond
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Over the decades, fond memories start to jumble and fade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
"You'd hear her before you'd see her, and everyone was very fond of her here in Mumbles."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He has fond memories of working to provide “internships for underprivileged kids in the hospitality business” and other charitable projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Why, Jo, how could I, when he was so fond of you?” asked Beth, as innocently as a child.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
Nat., fonds latin, No. 4270, fol. 14-16, 29-30, 35, 120, 148.--Coll.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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
Nat., fonds latin, No. 4270, fol. 186-92.--Jo. a S. Victore Memor.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
This edition follows the manuscript of the National Library, Paris: Ancien fonds Colbert lat., 5152A.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
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
You can sit this one out, and see if absence makes the sisters grow fonder of each other.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 27, 2025
The cliche that absence makes the heart grow fonder is apt here, in more ways than one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
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
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
"It was a council-run site, so a lot of my youth was here, and I've got nothing but the fondest memories of Skegness."
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
It’s one of the earliest, fondest memories I have.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025
Indeed, today, those evenings rank amongst my fondest memories from those times.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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