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boyfriends

noun

plural of boyfriend

as in beaux

a male romantic companion her boyfriend always brings her flowers for Valentine's Day

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Recent Examples of boyfriends And, if so, what will happen to all those chatbot boyfriends? — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026 People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Four of my old boyfriends appeared because of what has happened to me. — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026 The book is set around three years after the events of Heated Rivalry and sees Shane and Ilya as secret boyfriends while both play for Canadian hockey teams. — Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026 The tired, the sick, the hungry, the famous and tons of ex-boyfriends, all regretting their wrongs. — Courtney Love, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026 As well as the two ur-bad boyfriends from HBO’s Girls Christopher Abbott and Adam Driver who will portray, respectively, Professor Charles Xavier and Nathaniel Milbury/Mister Sinister. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2026 Brave will no doubt be poking fun at the usual suspects — including ex-boyfriends, and basically the male species in general, as well as unfortunate folks in the front row. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2026 She’s also joined by a range of boyfriends, with shoppers being able to pick one that has traditionally light or dark features. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 29 July 2026

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So are their girlfriends and wives, who support their beaus in stadiums and at home.

— Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
Despite some very not-so-subtle hints from yours truly, my past beaus have never gifted me a handbag on Valentine’s Day, either.

— Michelle Baricevic, InStyle, 26 Jan. 2026

Definition of beaux

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Brothers, husbands, mothers, children, grandparents—all were lost again and again in life, and then in death.

— Daniel Barnum, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2026
But tensions brew in this village that could be out of a Grimms’ fairy tale, with local women (like Elizabeth Debicki) getting jealous and starting to wonder if their own husbands are lacking.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026

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