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marry

[mar-ee, mer-ee] / ˈmær i, ˈmɛr i /


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Between the hours Urschel spent fending off nose tackles and studying eigenvalue problems, he barely saw the woman he would marry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

If Venter can marry young, new and superstar existing talent, while rallying the squad around his belligerent belief, they will be hard to stop.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Other chapters observe what happens when Thems date or marry Whos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Karnofsky would go on to marry Amodei’s sister, Daniela, now president of Anthropic, in a ceremony with a wedding website that stated, “We are both excited about effective altruism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Ignore her. She’s such a grump. Anyway, I think you’re good enough to marry Mishal Oh, I want a sister-in-law!”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But he refuses to listen and marries her anyway.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Golden Corral scrutinizes buffet waste, marries costly shrimp with cheaper hush puppies and mines data to make money off bottomless offerings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In the novel, Nyathi's heroine, Joyce, believes she has married into a union of one man and one woman, yet her husband, Jonasi, marries and sets up homes with three other women behind her back.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

If your daughter is married or marries sometime in the future, she can decide how much of her inheritance will be commingled with her spouse’s finances.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

If she marries Jaimito, she’ll continue in the life she has always been very happy living.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

They divorced about a decade later, and Ortiz married a U.S. citizen and gained legal status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Then when he got married and had a child, he stopped sharing news of his family and refused to allow get-togethers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Kelce - older brother of Travis, the three-time Super Bowl winning Kansas City Chiefs tight end married to global pop superstar Taylor Swift - played 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

For someone whose notoriety has twice become inseparable from who he’s married to, Pitt’s choice to play gruff loners feels noticeably calculated, keeping an arm’s distance between his work and the audience.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Is it emotional because Dad was working on it back when you were first married and you’re not married anymore?”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The vision of a utopian domestic future took a strange turn during the Cold War, marrying the breathless excitement of the space age with the existential dread of nuclear annihilation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Countering that trend are young people who have spent the past three years doing the opposite: enlisting in the military, marrying and building lives in a country at war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

She escaped the control of her hard-driving father by marrying, only to see her creative life throttled as she competed for piano time with her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

For more than 50 years, with a few breaks in between, Squeeze has been making memorable tunes by marrying infectious pop melodies with sophisticated and literate lyrics, often about the complexity of relationships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Kirby announce the marriage of their daughter Katherine—I knew neither the girl nor the man she was marrying.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway




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