love
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What are other ways to say love?
Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, or romantic feelings for another person, etc. Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause.
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The rise of BookTok and a business imperative to attract young women with money to spend have fueled a massive cultural moment for on-screen love stories, especially ones adapted from books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
To truly value love sometimes means being ready to change your life and fight for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
For a platform like Letterboxd, which has built its brand on reverence for film and all those who love it, selling to a company like Netflix would be a cold act of back-stabbing betrayal.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Although Stokes said he had developed "negative feelings" around playing for England, he said his time back in county cricket rekindled his love for the game.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Tom Brady, and I say this as a man who loves him, who was never the loudest voice in any room he dominated, only the most prepared.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Eric Smith, a military veteran from Shakopee, Minn., who loves to travel, is interested in investing — but he doesn’t want to spend his retirement “screwing around” with numbers or trying to time the market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It should be an easy decision, particularly since Sybylla loves him and Neill makes him so irresistible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
His numbers show he loves putting the ball in the back of the net against all teams, but there are some he seems to relish facing more than others.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
She loves changing hairstyles, so there’s no telling what her hair will look like when she enters.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He expressed his deepest sympathies to family members, friends and loved ones for their "unimaginable loss".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Kolby Lee, who started as Bass’ director of communications in February, said he was resigning to spend time with family and loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The commercial arrived tied to a UFC fight card staged on the White House lawn, and plenty of people loved it.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Lins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., says your problem is not an unusual one: “Not uncommonly, we have clients come into the office after a loved one has died and ask for some assistance.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
I loved the work, and except for Tante Bep would have been completely happy.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Since her final college routine in 2019, Ohashi was loving her retired athlete life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Ingalls folk, after all, are warm, loving, American and, as such, inclined to take a road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Her special power is foreign to most beings in that world: She is loving.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Being a 14-year-old boy and loving Tiktok, he wanted to get a photograph with him," explained Carville.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Once more she tried to interest herself in the sweet misadventures of Edith-Anne Pevington, who not only lived with two loving and easily locatable parents but had her own pony to boot.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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