as in wedded
of or relating to marriage
neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got
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Recent Examples of marital
The Fisks are not alone in untangling their marital tension.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 18 Mar. 2025
In a 2019 interview with The New York Times Magazine, Williams seemingly confirmed media reports that Hunter cheated on her with a younger woman in their marital home in suburban New Jersey.
—Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
The marital thriller also stars Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela and Pierce Brosnan.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Couples enjoy all the perks of marital commitment and can even have children, but choose not to live in the same residence.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 18 Mar. 2025
In a 2019 interview with The New York Times Magazine, Williams seemingly confirmed media reports that Hunter cheated on her with a younger woman in their marital home in suburban New Jersey.
—Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
The marital thriller also stars Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela and Pierce Brosnan.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Couples enjoy all the perks of marital commitment and can even have children, but choose not to live in the same residence.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Founded in 2023 from the merger of two matrimonial law firms — one in New York and one in Palm Beach, Florida — it’s rapidly grown into the one-stop shop for today’s most expensive divorces.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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Jacob Elordi plays Dorrigo Evans’ younger self, stumbling into an engagement with a girlfriend from a wealthy family (Olivia DeJonge) while falling in love with his uncle’s wife Amy (Odessa Young), a bohemian youngster who has clearly done some regrettable matrimonial stumbling herself.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Kitty, who was married to former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, died with family at her side on Friday, March 21, her son, John Dukakis, told WBUR.—
Brendan Le,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead the school’s student protest movement demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, is married to a US citizen and had a green card.—
Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Indian weddings are known for being exquisitely festive, and a new restaurant offering the fare typically served at the celebratory occasions invites anyone to take place in a traditional nuptial banquet.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Pino, a Cuban immigrant who turned a modest plumbing business into a home-building empire, directed Villar and his crew to kill his wife upon her return from church that Sunday because the couple was facing an imminent trial over their 1992 nuptial agreement and marital assets, investigators say.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The latest installment follows the central friends-to-lovers romance of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), ending with their connubial bliss and a new Bridgerton baby, the future new Lord Featherington.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 June 2024
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But now, the widowed Sophie needs West to feign an engagement with her in order to push her younger (also widowed) sister Alexandra into her own connubial bliss.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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“Marital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marital. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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