romance
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Kelce purchased his 17,000-square-foot Leawood, Kansas, mansion in 2023, shortly after he went public with his romance with Swift.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Whatever the scholarly truth, it’s safe to say that “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” to give this late romance its full title, is a patchwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Sterling Point is a summer romance series that “will stand the test of time,” according to Rebecca Onion.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
“In “Heated Rivalry,” the much-buzzed-about gay hockey romance, the protagonists escape to a “Quebec” cottage that is actually in Muskoka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“We call Spanish a romance language, Kojo, because it, like Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, originated from Latin, the language spoken in the western Roman Empire.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
A treat for anyone who loves a little wordplay: Can you think of an 11-letter phrase that describes some curries or romances?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
And while she knows people watch it for the drama and conversations it sparks, she thinks those are just "added extras" and the romances should be at the centre of the show.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
But other romances, like this one, are simply short-subject documentaries—lacking traditional narratives and quippy dialogue.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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
Katie was annoyed at this tendency and kept warning Francie to tell the plain truth and to stop romancing.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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