as in affaire
a brief romantic relationship
in her memoirs the diva candidly recalls her amours with some of opera's best-known tenors and baritones
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Recent Examples of amour
More poignant is the revelation that, despite being the writer of dozens of anthemic love songs, Warren has no great amour of her own.
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Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie doesn’t want to be a four-alarm funeral pyre but a tragic romance, presenting Amy through the prism of the amour fou that put her into a tailspin and fueled her triple-platinum second album.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
Eileen has been, up to this point, a bruised slice-of-life drama, a dingy-retro period piece, and possibly a romance just waiting to rev its amour fou engine.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
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Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
—Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie doesn’t want to be a four-alarm funeral pyre but a tragic romance, presenting Amy through the prism of the amour fou that put her into a tailspin and fueled her triple-platinum second album.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
Eileen has been, up to this point, a bruised slice-of-life drama, a dingy-retro period piece, and possibly a romance just waiting to rev its amour fou engine.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amour
Noun
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Winnie Greco, the former director of Asian affairs for the city, has been a fixture in Adams' campaigns and the current administration.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Fitzgerald was represented by Winston & Strawn co-executive chairman Dan Webb, a prominent Chicago litigator, former federal prosecutor and one-time special counsel in the Iran-Contra affair.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The series introduced Rosner’s Liam at the end of Season 3 as Maggie’s old summer fling who’d returned to seemingly stir up trouble.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
21 Aug. 2025
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Watch as this actress just flings around this cone.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
Noun
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With TikTok-ready hooks and a knack for personalized lyrics that ride the rollercoaster of youthful romance, the 22-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter-dancer has planted herself into the thick of the pop conversation.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter is back to weigh in on the state of modern romance, and the verdict is … complicated.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Amour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amour. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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