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Arden had been chatting with his husband, actor Andy Mientus, about the Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater spun from Wedekind’s drama.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

He said he had been chatting with someone on an app who subsequently asked him for the numbers of others.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

Alicia Franklin went to a Memphis apartment complex on Sept. 21, 2021, to finally meet the man she had been chatting with for a month via text and a dating app.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

The singer had been chatting from a hotel room in Los Angeles, to avoid potential interruptions from a noisy gardener near his home.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

I reached back and across the aisle to get my backpack, and Annette held it out to me, glaring like I had been chatting with Renee about Annette’s mother or something.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick