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divorce

[dih-vawrs] / dɪˈvɔrs /




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His marriage to Wendy Neuss, who had been a “Next Generation” producer, in 2000, also ended in divorce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The 56-year-old bought a £2m Georgian mansion in Llanwenarth, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, in November 2025 following his divorce from wife Mindy after 23 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

At the time, she was raising seven children -- she later had more -- while going through a divorce.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

After our divorce, he forced the sale of our family home in Florida, which I had paid for during our marriage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

As the journalists finalized their divorces with their ex-spouses in 2023, reports of a budding romance came to the forefront.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Robach and Holmes both finalized their divorces in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“The battle over embryos is becoming a big problem in divorces now.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

After two humiliating divorces, Opal has made the salvation of her oafish children her primary concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

She was briefly married to Ralph Head, at age 20, then married and divorced Ventura Huerta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Her father and mother had divorced, but Juan Fernandez’s legend had been fixed — a brawling union leader and New Mexico state legislator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

His entry into politics came at age 17 after his father pushed him to run against his mother Rogeria on the Rio de Janeiro city council, a year after his parents divorced.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Their father and I are divorced, and the divorce was far from amicable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

When Grub was seven years old, Hugo and I separated and divorced.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

The couple were married at the time of the alleged offences before separating in 2018 and divorcing in 2021.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Remini and her former husband, Angelo Pagán, announced back in 2024 that they were divorcing after nearly 30 years together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

May 2021: Bill and Melinda French Gates announce they are divorcing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Keep in mind that divorcing solely for the purpose of qualifying for higher benefits may raise legal concerns if the divorce is not genuine.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

I saw parents announce to their bawling children that they were divorcing.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat


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