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
Financially, Scott will continue to control marital funds, covering household expenses and temporarily providing Kelley $10,000 per month for living costs contingent on court order or further agreement.
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Danielle Bacher, People.com, 19 July 2025
Furthermore, Texas courts will consider infidelity or marital misconduct during a divorce proceeding.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2025
The Miss Universe alum topped off the marital ensemble with a 16-foot lace veil.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 14 July 2025
She was surprisingly left off the USA Olympic team, faced marital strife and mourned the loss of Summitt, who died of complications from Alzheimer’s.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
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Danielle Bacher, People.com, 19 July 2025
Furthermore, Texas courts will consider infidelity or marital misconduct during a divorce proceeding.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2025
The Miss Universe alum topped off the marital ensemble with a 16-foot lace veil.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 14 July 2025
She was surprisingly left off the USA Olympic team, faced marital strife and mourned the loss of Summitt, who died of complications from Alzheimer’s.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 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
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The genesis of Housewives is rooted in domestic life in a certain subsect of American culture, so of course matrimonial affairs will always be a major theme throughout the cities, despite this fanbase’s penchant for misandry.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
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And for those special matrimonial occasions, customizable wedding cakes continue to be a very popular offering at Sugar Blossom.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
16 June 2025
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Each has been married and divorced four times, and have famous singers for exes; Anderson was married to both Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, and Brinkley was married to Billy Joel.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
20 July 2025
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Both Byron and Cabot are reportedly married to other people.—
Kimberly Nordyke,
HollywoodReporter,
20 July 2025
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Five hundred years on from that Codex, who knew that da Vinci’s, Michelangelo’s and Dürer’s anatomical work would augment our view of the auspicious Sanchez/Bezos nuptial collection of modern bodies at this juncture in Venice?—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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On Friday the Bezos-Sanchez nuptial festivities are expected to take place on the island of San Giorgio, known for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore designed by famous architect Andrea Palladio.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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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 30 Jul. 2025.
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