marriage
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In the model, the “availability” phase entailed contact and small-scale movements across the frontier, with trading relationships and marriage alliances, for example, forming gradually.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Clark, a frustrated furniture store salesman struggling following the breakup of his marriage.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
In the title essay of her 2013 collection, “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage,” she describes her fear of remarrying after a childhood marked by divorce and a failed marriage of her own.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Central and local government officials have tried with limited success in recent years to incentivise marriage and childbirth, from launching dating apps to boosting child-rearing allowances and subsidising parental leave.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Her family hadn’t had enough money for a dowry, the sum any girl in Florence needed for a marriage, and girls without dowries disappeared into convents, cut off from the world.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing marriage
It's All in the Family
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Spelling Practice 1, Unit 9
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