affair
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Noakes, from Cardiff, said she and her new husband Lester are usually "quiet people" and only invited about 35 people to their wedding day in a small and intimate affair.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
I’ve written about my on-again, off-again love affair with my own electric vehicle, from things I wish I had known before buying one to my experience taking one on a road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Australia's ballad "Eclipse" evokes a love affair between planets.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
His visit was a highly-staged affair, featuring carefully curated images avidly watched by people worldwide, as they hadn’t had a window into China for over two decades.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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