hearts

British

/ hɑːts /

noun

Also called: Black Maria. (functioning as singular) a card game in which players must avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades

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“My heart’s out for you,” she told the crowd, “but at this time we have to stand by a decision to try and find more housing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

The ICD is a small life-saving device which detects problems with the heart's rhythm and immediately tries to correct them.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Goth Shakira holds court in a starry place to answer your heart’s questions about love.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Chester would not return home until 8 July, as he spent the next two weeks battling sepsis and the rare, life-threatening infection of the heart's inner lining endocarditis.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Arthur was the heart’s king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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