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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

Jeff Daniels offers a fond portrayal of the president in a film focused on the 1986 nuclear-arms talks in Iceland, co-starring J.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The couple moved to the village in 2011 with Bowler's wife hoping to replicate her fond memories of going to the beach every day when she lived in Cape Town, South Africa.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Penelope nearly clapped her hands in delight, for she was very fond of ferns.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

The fonds, in a word, are very tiresome.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

“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

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

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

Sir Billy has now released four limited edition works under his Born On A Rainy Day series, recalling some of the fondest memories from his life.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

“The years of ‘Your Special Day’ of one-on-ones with each grandkid are some of their fondest memories,” the family said in her obituary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

I have nothing but the fondest memories of growing up in a zoo.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel