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dating app

American

[dayt-ing ap] / ˈdeɪt ɪŋ ˌæp /

noun

an app that enables users to search for someone to go out on a date with or matches them with likely candidates.

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Amanda Turen met Will Mason on a dating app while visiting family in Florida two-and-a-half years ago, and the pair fell in love instantly.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

The dating test furnishes a neat illustration: three profiles—identical in every respect except astrological sign, all showing the same picture of a young man named “Michael”—were created on a popular Chinese dating app.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

One victim said he agreed to meet a stranger who contacted him on a dating app in January.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Grindr was a pioneering geolocative dating app for queer men when tech entrepreneur Joel Simkhai launched it in 2009 in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

It also let her see that the car salesman in 8A looked nothing like the photo he’d just posted on a dating app.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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