significant other

Maybe your plans entail your entire family—parents, aunts, grandparents, nieces, cousins, in-laws, dogs, turtles, significant others—sharing a lovely holiday weekend under the same roof.

In “Baggage,” Cumming examines his relationships to his family, significant others and himself.

This was before I learned the ironclad rule that one should never try to teach a significant other a sport, especially if one wants the other to remain significant.

Because many shelters are single-sex or sex-segregated facilities, often people are asked to separate from their significant others, which can be a deal breaker.

We have a card that says, “You are cordially invited to invade my personal space,” which is funny, considering how much time we’ve spent with our significant others this year.

And in either case, “the significant benefit from allowing Wi-Fi hotspots outweighs these concerns.”

This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.

The town, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab, is so significant to ISIS that the group calls it Ayn al-Islam.

Occasionally, guys and girls admitted outright they were looking for a potential significant other.

It was the first significant violence directed toward police after weeks of demonstrations across the city.

In dramatic interpretation the voice is a much more significant feature relatively than is the detail of gesture in pantomime.

And in his heart the name of the poem repeated itself with significant insistence: Unwelcome!

The finely granular variety is the least significant, and is found when the epithelium is only moderately affected.

By all the sounded consonants we have—“Inhuman Civil War;” the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered.

An odd and somewhat unromantic name, but very significant of the circumstances under which she was found.