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romance

[roh-mans, roh-mans, roh-mans] / roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊ mæns, roʊˈmæns /




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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

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

It followed the off-the-ice romance between two professional hockey stars that play for the rival teams the Montreal Metros and the Boston Raiders in a fictional Major League Hockey league.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

If neither actor makes a strong impression, it’s in part due to the roistering comedy that forms a background to their romance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 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

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

Many shows feature wild, fast-moving plot lines, about topics ranging from secret billionaire husbands to forbidden romances, that are designed to keep viewers glued to their screens.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

But while Penn's romances have had their well-chronicled highs and lows, his acting career only followed one trajectory: up.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 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

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

Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.

From Slate Aug. 5, 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




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