as in affaire
a brief romantic relationship
an office romance that ended with hurt feelings on both sides
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Recent Examples of romance
Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 2 Mar. 2025
Love, Brooklyn is less a story about romance and more a coming of age story about adults confronting the reality of making tough decisions through unexpected change.
—Morgan A. Grain, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
Tommy McArdle, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Angelina Jolie is not romancing the British rapper Akala, a source tells PEOPLE.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Starring Mikey Madison as Ani, a Manhattan strip club worker who marries a client in a whirlwind romance that goes very wrong.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 2 Mar. 2025
Love, Brooklyn is less a story about romance and more a coming of age story about adults confronting the reality of making tough decisions through unexpected change.
—Morgan A. Grain, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
Werther chronicles his attempts at romancing Charlotte via phone calls to his friend, only to learn that Charlotte is engaged to an emotionally unavailable man named Albert (Adams, 43).
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Angelina Jolie is not romancing the British rapper Akala, a source tells PEOPLE.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romance
Verb
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But the film shares a dark sense of humor with Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, in which Jack Lemmon's disgraced cop, Nestor, disguises himself as wealthy Englishman Lord X to woo prostitute Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Columbus software startups have a new local angel investment fund to woo.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The trip to and from Sacramento to work in person is a 14-hour affair.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Mar. 2025
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For example the story of the like button suggests that innovation is not the result of one hero standing tall but a serendipitous social affair.—
Christian Stadler,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Pioneering The Future Of Retail The rise of AI in retail has sparked concerns about job displacement.—
Gurhan Kok,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Moore’s exit will spark widespread speculation over who will replace her at the BBC.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As Jaclyn tries to encourage (mock?) divorcee Laurie into having a fling at the resort with one of the staff members, Laurie is visibly torn between indulging her own desires and proving her friends’ pity to be misplaced.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
3 Mar. 2025
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Jaclyn’s insistence that Laurie have a fling with him will almost certainly backfire; the question is when and how.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But the science of menopause is considerably more recent, dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when physicians in Europe began to research the effects of chemicals secreted by the body which control reproduction.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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The couple got engaged and married in 2020 after meeting on the dating app Raya–the same platform Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens met.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Romance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romance. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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