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Definition of affiancednext
as in engaged
pledged in marriage the affianced couple are much-sought-after guests for this year's holiday parties

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affianced

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verb

past tense of affiance
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Adjective
  • The result is a fiery and impassioned offering that finds the veteran fully engaged and intent on proving no chinks have been left in his armor despite his tenuous back-and-forth with his Compton counterpart.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 15 May 2026
  • The debate, the back and forth, the unsolicited tags—that is where trust is built in public, where brand affinity becomes visible and where your most engaged audience shows themselves to you.
    Rhea Karo, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Trump also proposed suspending the federal gas tax to help with higher fuel prices caused by the war.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Harris-Dawson also proposed that employees have the ability to waive out of the health plan in lieu of cash if they are already covered by Medicare or other coverage.
    City News Service, Daily News, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • In March, OpenAI closed a record-breaking funding round of $122 billion in committed capital from investors including Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz.
    Ian Thomas, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • Barthélémy is beautiful, luminous, committed, and vulnerable — and therefore just about succeeds in holding up Mount Olympus as the only character with interiority across the two-hour running time.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce brought a big week full circle by making their first public appearance as a betrothed couple at the place their love story began — GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The day after Anne’s execution, Henry VIII became betrothed to his mistress, Jane Seymour.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Observers say their prosecution and the disappearance of the vigil symbolized the decline in freedoms that Beijing had promised when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Karpathy was one of several OpenAI employees Musk borrowed from OpenAI to do months of free work at Tesla, where the development of self-driving vehicles wasn’t going as quickly as promised.
    Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • So far, however, Costco and FedEx are among the few big firms that have pledged to pass the government payments on to customers in the form of lower prices or refunds.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • When the legislative session began earlier this year, Connecticut lawmakers pledged to focus on affordability and cost, seeking to keep the state on track as national economic uncertainty persists — and as a number of consumer costs, ranging from healthcare to energy, were on the rise.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026
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“Affianced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affianced. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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