affianced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of affianced
Example Sentences
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The “Beast Games” host, 26, who is the most-subscribed-to YouTuber, proposed to his girlfriend of two years on Christmas Day and revealed on New Year’s Day that they were affianced.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025
However, usually the affianced couple can stick it out long enough to break up in private once the show is completely done.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2024
Lindo gets off relatively easy by “only” being affianced to a stranger at age 4.
From Slate • Aug. 17, 2018
The affianced co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” it turns out, have also been named visiting fellows to Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2017
The next morning it was surrounded, and the Adjutant would have lost his life, but for the interposition of the landlord's daughter, to whom he was affianced.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)
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