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marriage

[mar-ij] / ˈmær ɪdʒ /


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The stage for the possible marriage was set this year when SpaceX acquired Musk’s privately held xAI company in a $1.25-trillion deal that brought the AI company’s assets to the rocket maker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Moneyist tackles a thorny question after a woman’s longtime partner died and left her his house — much to the chagrin of his grown children from a past marriage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

A valuation expert hired by John Overdeck testified that his stake in the business was worth $50 million at the time of marriage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Proposed changes to the family code have included allowing women to stipulate in their marriage contracts that their husbands cannot take another wife.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

A year ago, when they spoke of marriage, he'd left town in a hurry.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Understand the world with the help of the Muppets: In 2012, Dahlia Lithwick published a piece of cultural analysis that permanently altered how readers viewed their marriages, their workplaces, and the U.S.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mr. Spencer’s four marriages and three divorces barely merit a mention, yet his emotions are center stage as he interweaves his memories around Diana’s death with other scattered recollections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Both individual exercise and shared exercise were associated with healthier marriages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

It condemned all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and reiterated that sexual slavery of boys, and child marriages and forced forced marriages constituted human rights abuses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

I thought of a statistic I wish I didn’t know: Half of marriages end in the year after a child’s death.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green


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