as in wedded
of or relating to marriage
neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got
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Recent Examples of marital
According to California’s community property laws, marital assets must typically be divided equally in a divorce.
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Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 6 Mar. 2025
Uncertainty over the distribution of marital assets began during the divorce proceedings and has persisted in probate court.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
That would be one of many press storms for the Prince: in 2021, rumors of marital trouble swirled when his wife, Princess Charlene, left Monaco for South Africa and did not appear in public for ten months.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
The couple faced various marital issues throughout their 16-year run.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 6 Mar. 2025
Uncertainty over the distribution of marital assets began during the divorce proceedings and has persisted in probate court.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
That would be one of many press storms for the Prince: in 2021, rumors of marital trouble swirled when his wife, Princess Charlene, left Monaco for South Africa and did not appear in public for ten months.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
The couple faced various marital issues throughout their 16-year run.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Founded in 2023 from the merger of two matrimonial law firms — one in New York and one in Palm Beach, Florida — it’s rapidly grown into the one-stop shop for today’s most expensive divorces.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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Jacob Elordi plays Dorrigo Evans’ younger self, stumbling into an engagement with a girlfriend from a wealthy family (Olivia DeJonge) while falling in love with his uncle’s wife Amy (Odessa Young), a bohemian youngster who has clearly done some regrettable matrimonial stumbling herself.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the time, Robach was married to Melrose Place star Andrew Shue, and Holmes was married to attorney Marilee Fiebig.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Culpo previously dated singer Nick Jonas, who’s now married to actor Priyanka Chopra (Miss World 2000) and football veteran Tim Tebow, who is now married to South African beauty queen Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (Miss Universe 2017).—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Indian weddings are known for being exquisitely festive, and a new restaurant offering the fare typically served at the celebratory occasions invites anyone to take place in a traditional nuptial banquet.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Pino, a Cuban immigrant who turned a modest plumbing business into a home-building empire, directed Villar and his crew to kill his wife upon her return from church that Sunday because the couple was facing an imminent trial over their 1992 nuptial agreement and marital assets, investigators say.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The latest installment follows the central friends-to-lovers romance of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), ending with their connubial bliss and a new Bridgerton baby, the future new Lord Featherington.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 June 2024
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But now, the widowed Sophie needs West to feign an engagement with her in order to push her younger (also widowed) sister Alexandra into her own connubial bliss.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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“Marital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marital. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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