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 Still, the flirty experience has brought some spark back to the marital bed. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025 Per the documents, both Copes and Nida have waived their rights to receive alimony and divided their marital property outside of court. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025 The tax can easily be deferred with a marital bequest so that no tax is due until the second death. Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 Here’s a sampling: autism, brittle bone disease, alcoholism, financial struggles and marital difficulties. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
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  • According to the National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2024, married couples accounted for about 62% of all buyers, while single females made up about 20% and single males about 8%.
    Brendel Hightower, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Listen to this article A married couple was forced to sit next to a dead body for roughly four hours after a woman died in the middle of an international flight.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
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  • When a reservation mishap leads to Jim’s daughter, Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan), and Margot’s sister, Neve (Meredith Hagner), being double-booked to marry at the same small island inn over the same weekend, Jim and Margot channel their anxieties into what escalates into a nuptial war.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The old tradition that the bride’s parents should cover the bill is no longer nuptial canon.
    Virginia Van Zanten, Vogue, 9 Jan. 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
  • 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 12 Mar. 2025.

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