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Recent Examples of billet-doux
Only one painting, The Love Letter (on loan from the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands), is explicitly identified as a billet-doux, but all three are suggestive of interior dramas; secret vulnerabilities and joys; two selves reaching toward one another.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 July 2025
Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billet-doux
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The appeal, made in a letter Monday, comes ahead of the November 6 annual meeting as the board faces mounting criticism over governance and its independence from Musk’s influence.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The press release included a photograph of Morales Reyes and a segment of one of the letters, days after investigators concluded Morales Reyes almost certainly did not write it, since Morales Reyes does not fluently speak or write in English.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Many prominent actors, including Maybe Happy Ending's star Darren Criss, SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin, Hamilton star Phillipa Soo, Equity president Brooke Shields, and Queen frontman Adam Lambert earlier signed an open letter in solidarity with the union.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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The letter was coordinated and published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that in 2023 published a different open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of powerful AI systems.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a proud dad, the 38-year-old wrote his firstborn a sweet epistle to acknowledge his birthday.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
7 Feb. 2025
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One of the earliest witnesses to the spread of Christianity, the codex features the first epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN,
3 Apr. 2024
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Trump’s memorandum was consistent with one of his Inauguration Day executive orders, which prohibited DEI activities by all government agencies, grantees and contractors.—
Paul du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The memorandum was cosigned by Vernadsky’s younger colleague Vitalii Khlopin, who had taken over the directorship of the Radium Institute from Vernadsky in 1939.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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These missives forced career civil servants, many of them furloughed, to become unwilling messengers for partisan ends.—
Stephanie A,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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Several legal firms have issued memos raising concerns about the missive's effect on foundations and nonprofit organizations.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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They were charged in a 39-count indictment that included conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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The bill emerged from a compromise with the Democratic assembly leader, who sought to expand the use of drop boxes for mail ballots.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The postcard-pretty Georgian city of Bath has been feting one of its favorite daughters, Jane Austen, all year, marking the 250th anniversary of her birth.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
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Park Street, pictured in this postcard from the late 1920s, was the center of activity from the beginning.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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The following is a dispatch from that visit.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
23 Oct. 2025
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Speaking of the Phoenix program, the full roster is revealed ahead of Robert’s first shift on dispatch.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Billet-doux.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billet-doux. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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