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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“I love our country and our company,” the CEO wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
“Hopefully, you have 50 years together and your grandchildren call him grandpa, but love is not a replacement for clarity,” said Wing.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
I love that it's not DC or Marvel...
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Foreign manufactures are scrambling to compete with Detroit, undercut by Chinese cars and spurred by U.S. customers’ longstanding love of big vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
He remembered how she smiled at him, with so much love and pride.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
It’s not helpful to frame a compromise as a choice between your husband taking on consulting work in retirement and spending his late 60s and 70s, and beyond, playing golf and doing things he loves.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Mead said she would never say never to another corporate job but loves the autonomy and income potential of entrepreneurship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
A slogan painted on a motorcycle taxi reads: "Christ loves you."
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
"We joke sometimes that Karl doesn't love walking. But he loves the mission. He loves the passion, the purpose."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
She either loves him because he gets her work or hates him because he doesn’t.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
"They're still waiting," she said, referring to the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters not yet reunited with their captured loved ones.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Looking after a loved one with the disease is robbing people of their friends, hobbies and career," the paper writes.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
LeBron James says that his loved ones are not in danger after multiple media outlets reported that a man was arrested outside the former Lakers star’s Brentwood home late last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Also, as American families become more geographically dispersed, the traditional practice of visiting a loved one’s burial site may be less practical and, in some cases, less relevant.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
Somehow he had taught Marlene to kneel down and to lift her trunk at his command, and the children loved this.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
“This great nation of ours is a caring, loving land,” Reagan once said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
But even though the Tramp doesn’t look like an ideal parent, he turns out to be just as loving as any biological relation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
Rabbi Aron Moss from the Nefesh Synagogue said Geller, who escaped the Holocaust as a child, had remained as "positive, loving, and strong throughout her life, right until the end".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
She and her brother grew up loving Pulido’s music.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Don’t feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much,” she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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