as in domestic partnership
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Recent Examples of civil union
In 2018, Mary entered a civil union with her husband Romain Bonnet, celebrating their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.
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Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
Liechtenstein legalized civil unions in a 2011 referendum.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
One of the things that the administration was thinking of doing was making people who had civil unions dissolve them, so that would have taken some time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 May 2024
Already in February 2023, the pope had said that Benedict once dismissed a complaint about what Francis said on civil unions, but offered fewer details.
—Reuters, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
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Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
Liechtenstein legalized civil unions in a 2011 referendum.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
One of the things that the administration was thinking of doing was making people who had civil unions dissolve them, so that would have taken some time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 May 2024
Already in February 2023, the pope had said that Benedict once dismissed a complaint about what Francis said on civil unions, but offered fewer details.
—Reuters, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil union
Noun
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Text messages sent in the hours leading up to O’Keefe’s death read aloud to the court by a Massachusetts state trooper show the couple were at a strained point in their relationship.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Argentine pontiff and the American president sparred early in their relationship over immigration.—
Darlene Superville,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.—
Robert Hornsby,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Oct. 2023
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“Civil union.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20union. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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