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marriage

[mar-ij] / ˈmær ɪdʒ /


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I got back up unscathed and proceeded to surprise him with an on-air Valentine’s Day marriage proposal on “KTLA 5 Morning News.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

They make their ruling using the letter of the law — evaluating marital property and what the lower-earning spouse contributed to the marriage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hayler had told the court that Price had "launched a campaign" against him after their marriage broke down, and that the allegations formed part of it.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yet more people see good friends as essential to a fulfilling life than those who feel the same about marriage and kids, according to the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

When he called her the next day, Gerda told him that she had taken the blood test for the marriage license.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

All is fair in love, second marriages, legal beneficiaries and real estate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Understand the world with the help of the Muppets: In 2012, Dahlia Lithwick published a piece of cultural analysis that permanently altered how readers viewed their marriages, their workplaces, and the U.S.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Both individual exercise and shared exercise were associated with healthier marriages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

It condemned all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and reiterated that sexual slavery of boys, and child marriages and forced forced marriages constituted human rights abuses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

This prince liked to dress the creature in his dead son’s clothes and pretend he was a child, Ser Axell claimed, and from time to time he would propose marriages for him.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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