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Recent Examples of civil union
The 2014 act went further than the original laws by banning marriages and civil unions, the operation of gay organizations and social clubs, public expressions of LGBTQ+ identity and advocacy of LGBTQ+ rights.
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Damisola Sulaiman, The Dial, 20 Feb. 2025
Mary and Romain entered into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 24 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
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Damisola Sulaiman, The Dial, 20 Feb. 2025
Mary and Romain entered into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 24 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil union
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It is also underrated as an affecting celebration of domestic partnership.—
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
February 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2025
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Instead of focusing on the joys of loving cohabitation and coming across poignantly allergic to controversy, like Miley Cyrus’s Younger Now or the Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco album, Swift has chosen chaos.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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Humans have always ingested endophytes given that endophyte–plant cohabitation goes back hundreds of millions of years, and endophytes contribute to our gut microbiome.—
Anna Marija Helt,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Sep. 2025
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The alternative story of Helen’s Egyptian detour invites a more critical examination of the relationship between war and story by highlighting the degree to which humans have been conditioned by a narrative that presents war as the ultimate stage for personal and national glory.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Tuuli Narkle Fans might be shipping Narkle's character, Constable Cooper, and Sager's Jackson, but her relationship status off-screen is currently unclear.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 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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Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.—
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 30 Oct. 2025.
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