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The New York Post reported that, after the nonmarriage ended, Mr. Peters sent an email to Page Six in which he claimed to have paid $200,000 worth of bills for Ms. Anderson.

From New York Times • May 28, 2020

As one might have expected after nearly 25 years of nonmarriage, the proposal that eventually did surface was a measured one.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2017

In 2009, Dr. Cox wrote an opinion piece for The New York Post in which she memorialized the couple’s nonmarriage.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2017

A fight for true marital equality cannot take the superiority of marriage to nonmarriage as its starting point.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2013

In Great Britain more than 75,000 nurses, all of whom must have passed physical examination, are cut off from reproduction by the same requirement of nonmarriage.

From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.