affair
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She lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, but had just begun a love affair with Los Angeles, and ultimately decided to split her time between the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He believes she was dragged, unwittingly, into the whole affair.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Now, his latest real estate purchase gives the former governor a substantial new foothold in the Hamptons—complete with enough acreage and amenities to turn his summers into a decidedly resortlike affair.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Reading it, Barr learns two things: First, that before her illness Dava carried on a lengthy love affair with a woman named Svetlana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Todd Hines wrote to Dennis that he was meeting with Jesse Spiro, Tether’s head of government affairs, and had received a “very worried” call from Ardoino.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In its closely watched World Economic Outlook released on Tuesday, the IMF slightly upgraded its global 2026 forecast, while warning of a "split" state of affairs as wide-ranging risks test economic resilience.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
World affairs seldom provide easy answers, however, and developments elsewhere have threatened to undermine his efforts to bring down fuel prices before they provide any political benefit.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Asking the question is certainly a brazen, if not entirely unusual, state of affairs in families, especially if she considers herself a de facto guardian.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
I don’t remember exactly what we talked about after that—a little bit about the economy and the state of affairs in England, the various meetings Barack had been having.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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