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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People would wait just outside the arrival gate door, sometimes while dressed in goofy getups while toting balloons or homemade signs of welcome, congratulations or even matrimonial proposals.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Etiquette Experts Share The 8 Biggest Mistakes Made At Southern Weddings The New Wedding Dress Code Trend In recent years, another practice has slowly crept into the matrimonial mainstream: highly specific wedding dress codes, many times accompanied by Pinterest boards for inspiration.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Just days later, on March 27, the tears were of the happy sort as a local married couple, who asked to remain anonymous, welcomed Mimi and Gucci into their home.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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In February 2023, the married star confessed to GQ that his residency was dedicated to his female fans.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
4 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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