Example Sentences

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"It's about my personal experience with unreciprocated love," says singer Johannes Pietsch, who performs under the name JJ.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

“He’s a dreamer and a lover. He’s obsessed with this unreciprocated love and that kills him,” said Garcia-Rulfo.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

Since the start of the summer, the administration has embarked on a largely unreciprocated push to talk with Beijing, establishing working groups and sending three cabinet-level officials and its top climate envoy to Beijing.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2023

Her years-long on-again, off-again dynamic with one boyfriend makes for an aching account of unreciprocated romance.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022

They were alternately morbid and convivial in style, and were concerned largely with death, the rapture of the wine-cup, or the bitterness of unreciprocated attachment.

From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert