loved one
noun
: a person one loves and especially a member of one's family
Many of her friends and loved ones visited her in the hospital.
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The first crisp morning of the season sends your poor, perpetually cold loved one diving under the bedsheets, digging for the fuzzy socks, or fiddling with the thermostat when your back is turned.
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Adrienne So, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
These experts can support you and help explain the importance of planning in a way that feels less personal and more objective to your aging loved one.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Each one represents a real person — someone’s child, parent, sibling, friend, neighbor or loved one — who was struck by a vehicle.
—Daryl Perry, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
As anyone who supports a sick or aging loved one knows, caregiving can be a burden, a blessing and a privilege.
—NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
Families falling on hard times, an older loved one moving in with the younger child, like these are things Americans are dealing with.
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
These are behaviors by a spouse, partner or loved one that are meant to control, isolate or frighten.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
In California and throughout the nation, these issues are key to improving quality of life for families that struggle to take time off to care for a newborn or ailing loved one, or to find affordable child care.
—Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Doug Emhoff Emhoff is an obvious inclusion, given his status as Harris’s closest ally and loved one.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
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Adrienne So, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
These experts can support you and help explain the importance of planning in a way that feels less personal and more objective to your aging loved one.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Each one represents a real person — someone’s child, parent, sibling, friend, neighbor or loved one — who was struck by a vehicle.
—Daryl Perry, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
As anyone who supports a sick or aging loved one knows, caregiving can be a burden, a blessing and a privilege.
—NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
Families falling on hard times, an older loved one moving in with the younger child, like these are things Americans are dealing with.
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
These are behaviors by a spouse, partner or loved one that are meant to control, isolate or frighten.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
In California and throughout the nation, these issues are key to improving quality of life for families that struggle to take time off to care for a newborn or ailing loved one, or to find affordable child care.
—Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Doug Emhoff Emhoff is an obvious inclusion, given his status as Harris’s closest ally and loved one.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Loved one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loved%20one. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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