marriageable
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When there aren’t marriageable or even dateable men around, fewer women marry and have children, a dynamic that has been particularly pronounced in America’s working class.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
She feared that her daughter – a young woman of marriageable age – would attract negative attention and face difficulties if she stayed single.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
As I entered my marriageable years, I was introduced to suitable men from Lima, Peru; Tenerife in the Canary Islands; Paramaribo, Suriname; and Accra, Ghana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Once Rhaenyra becomes marriageable, Viserys fields a plethora of suitors for her hand.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
But if I made myself unsellable here, my parents need only wait until China, and there, where anything happens, they would be able to unload us, even me—sellable, marriageable.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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