romance

Jeanie helped oversee another dynastic run in the 2000s, when the Lakers added five more trophies—all while carrying on a Hollywood romance with the team’s head coach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

That song helped me find that maybe there was a little river of romance in their imaginations in that moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Rebecca Onion declares that in a crowded field of summer romance series, this is the one that will stand the test of time.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Season 2 of the Peabody Award-winning series about two hockey rivals entangled in a heated romance is still months away from premiering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“In the romance of it. Listen, Connor, I was just about your age when it all happened, so what should I know about romance?”

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

More recently, the character opened a B&B and had several romances.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The movie’s sweeping visuals and romantic love story evoked a sentiment similar to 1940s war romances.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

In the end, Nick and Charlie decide to give their relationship another shot, confident that their love can defy the conventional wisdom that teen romances rarely last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Still to come: more BookTok favorites, more romances, the hotly anticipated “Summer I Turned Pretty” movie and a TV adaptation of romantasy series “Fourth Wing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

As I’ve told you, what I say is not what I feel, which is why I have a reputation for being boy-crazy as well as a flirt, a smart aleck and a reader of romances.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

He romanced Lady Mary on “Downton Abbey” only to promptly die.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

I love being romanced by their promises of protecting birds and treating their workers well with their shade-grown, pesticide-free beans.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

Ms. Setouchi described her “Genji” translation as her “life-project,” but said she initially struggled to connect with the book’s female characters, who were alternately romanced and discarded by the young prince.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021

But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021

Woolf began coming in regularly, parking his Stetson on the table and pointing Greenberg’s nose in the Racing Form while he romanced her.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

Miss Piggy insists on living la vie en rose above all, including romancing herself.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee