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
A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023
He’s also staging it at his Washington company, with an entirely different setting: a D.C. television newsroom, in which the passive-aggressive love match of Beatrice and Benedick is co-anchoring a telecast.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
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
He had married early—a love match; his wife, my mother, soon died, and I was left a six months' old baby.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
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