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 race got brutal as Election Day approached, with reports of marital infidelity and the emergence of a tape featuring Trump talking about grabbing women’s genitals.
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Dan Alexander, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
At Tuesday's hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, senators grilled him on his personal life, including his marital history—an unusual move for what is essentially a job interview.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Think of it as a supranational marital spat: Everyone’s right and no one knows why.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
In what may well be a spy movie for actual adults, director Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp concoct a moody drama steeped in espionage, marital trust issues and, one hopes, prime opportunities for playing the pause, the side-eye and the steely glare along with the words.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Dan Alexander, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
At Tuesday's hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, senators grilled him on his personal life, including his marital history—an unusual move for what is essentially a job interview.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Think of it as a supranational marital spat: Everyone’s right and no one knows why.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
In what may well be a spy movie for actual adults, director Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp concoct a moody drama steeped in espionage, marital trust issues and, one hopes, prime opportunities for playing the pause, the side-eye and the steely glare along with the words.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
Adjective
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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
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Destined for streaming on Prime Video (like so many comedies these days), this matrimonial romp stars Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2025
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Related Articles Gomez, who is currently engaged to producer and music artist Benny Blanco, finished her matrimonial look with her marquis diamond engagement ring, which is estimated to have cost around $200,000, according to the diamond experts from United Kingdom retailer Steven Stone.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
4 Jan. 2025
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He had been held in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, when the married couple were kidnapped from their home during the Hamas massacre where thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel and slaughtered around 1,200 people and abducted 251 people, sparking the war in Gaza.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
14 Feb. 2025
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At the 2024 Emmys, Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden made their red carpet debut as a married couple after secretly tying the knot in July.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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When a reservation mishap leads to Jim’s daughter, Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan), and Margot’s sister, Neve (Meredith Hagner), being double-booked to marry at the same small island inn over the same weekend, Jim and Margot channel their anxieties into what escalates into a nuptial war.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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The old tradition that the bride’s parents should cover the bill is no longer nuptial canon.—
Virginia Van Zanten,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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