boyfriend
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Should you tell a friend their new boyfriend is a dud?
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
My boyfriend says he wouldn’t spend that much on the project, but that if it would make me happy, I should go ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
The boyfriend had insisted he had left her there while trying to get help, telling the court he had loved his girlfriend and that he was deeply sorry.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
They were living temporarily with a friend, her boyfriend and her children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
I stay next to her as we walk to the car, neither of us saying anything, while the setter-upper and the boyfriend stealer walk behind us.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
“I’ve made lots of mistakes with boyfriends and husbands,” said Johnson, who has been married three times.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The barbarians of buyouts past, it seems, are now the sought-after boyfriends of the beautiful and famous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
“Shedding our childish ways! All for the great life as teenagers we’re about to have. When we get boyfriends, we’re going to go to Fall Ball!”
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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