love affair

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Her love affair with The Beatles began, like so many others, on February 9, 1964, when she tuned into the group’s American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Hollywood’s decades-long love affair with fast-food chains shows no signs of slowing down, from purple ‘demon’ sauce inspired by ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to blue milkshakes for ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

“Kafkaesque” ends with a chapter on Milena Jesenská, the only translator of his work Kafka met, and a woman with whom he had an ardent, if mostly long-distance, love affair.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Rumours of a love affair have been circulating since January when the pair were seen together at an event in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of Le Figaro newspaper.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

But a real love affair was an almost unthinkable event.

From "1984" by George Orwell