boyfriend
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Panettiere lived in Los Angeles, but her boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, is a Greenville native, according to authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The wreck claimed the lives of Nathesia Lewis, 42, Lynette Noble, 38, Asherey Ryan, 23, her 11-month-old son, Alonzo, and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, 23.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Holly said her boyfriend called the fire service as soon as he got out of the house.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I did want a boyfriend, but I didn’t want it to be just anyone.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
It’s women bringing their boyfriends, women who now bring their husbands, couples coming together, and I love it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I had grown up with hockey. I had boyfriends who played hockey. My dad loved hockey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
We’re lucky, because once again, there are no boyfriends tonight.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
