bromance
Americannoun
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Origin of bromance
First recorded in 2000-05; bro + (ro)mance 1
Example Sentences
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Is the very real affection Clark feels for Floyd, and vice versa, merely bromance?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The bros have rekindled their bromance after their spectacular breakup last spring.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
That comedy, set in the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital, will reprise the bromance between Zach Braff and Donald Faison’s characters, which the pair recreated recently in T-Mobile commercials.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
The "tech bromance" embraced the UK this week with a hat-trick of multi-billion investments from Nvidia, Microsoft and Google.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025
She hated to interrupt a budding bromance, but Reyna was right: they had serious things to discuss.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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