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Entertainment Newsletter 'Suits' star Gabriel Macht is keeping location of new home 'under wraps' after leaving US, Kevin Costner's ex engaged to family friend nearly one year after finalizing divorce with 'Yellowstone' star
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Fox News Staff, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2025
The lyrics reveal a sense of near-dread over the mere idea of meeting an ex at a reunion.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
The exes even volunteered together on Thanksgiving of 2024 to serve meals to the needy with the Midnight Mission.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
However, the relationship between Abbott and Keoghan’s respective characters is a little more complex: Keoghan’s onscreen mother is Abbott’s ex, and therefore Keoghan is almost a surrogate son turned epitome of the life Abbott could have had.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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Fox News Staff, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2025
The lyrics reveal a sense of near-dread over the mere idea of meeting an ex at a reunion.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2025
The exes even volunteered together on Thanksgiving of 2024 to serve meals to the needy with the Midnight Mission.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
However, the relationship between Abbott and Keoghan’s respective characters is a little more complex: Keoghan’s onscreen mother is Abbott’s ex, and therefore Keoghan is almost a surrogate son turned epitome of the life Abbott could have had.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ex
Noun
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In the background is a lake, perhaps where King Arthur’s mythical maiden resided before giving him his sword.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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Cowgirls, grunge girls, hippie chicks, hula girls, Mods, Pre-Raphaelite maidens, and surfers are some of the territories that her designs have come up with.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Banksy’s version, the maid is replaced by two men wearing hazmat suits and pushing a barrel of toxic waste.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
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Back at stately Beck Manor, Reacher finally gets to tuck into some of the Irish cook’s delicious stew and parler a little français with the French maid, who reveals that Beck has a mechanic on staff, too.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Born in California, Sanderson grew up in Idaho and after high school went on a Mormon mission in the south of France for two years before getting a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Pew also found that about half of AI users have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 39% of non-AI users.—
Josie Cox,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In its 2001 film adaptation, Zellweger fell headfirst into life as a London girl and audiences around the globe fell in love with a verbally incontinent spinster who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The latter have moved away from the village and do not appear, while the former stay and assist their mother, the eldest being a literal spinster.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Ex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ex. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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