love match
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of love match
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Initially awkward together, they gradually form an attachment informed by the trauma of the job, and their arranged union becomes a love match — albeit an unusually complicated one.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn’t concern most of us in the long run.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023
But I hope by the end, she has this humbling redemptive moment where she does find a love match with someone who loves her for her flaws, rather than despite her flaws.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022
It had been a love match as far as that was concerned.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary
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