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The word "divorced" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to two individuals who have legally separated, or when talking about the legal status of someone no longer married. Example: After five years of marriage, John and Jane decided to get divorced.
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divorced
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Past of divorce
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Von Furstenberg's life story is a biopic waiting to happen: the self-made millionaire who married into (and then divorced from) German royalty, partied with Andy Warhol at Studio 54, lost her fortune and won it again, got namechecked in a Dolly Parton song (Working Girl) and is still, at 66, having a high old time as a grand dame of New York.
In the blue corner, a divorced fortysomething actor.
It tells the story of an unusual woman, a British-educated, divorced Hungarian doctor who held some negative views about Jews but risked her life to hide a Jewish friend, Irene Lakos, and her friend's seven-year-old nephew.
Viggo left South America aged 11, when his parents divorced and he moved to upstate New York with his mother and siblings.
While it is uncommon for divorced men to send flowers to an ex-wife, Newt owes the former Mrs Gingrich a big "thank you" after her strategically-timed interview with ABC, intended to ruin his candidacy, backfired.
It would be like getting divorced and keeping a joint bank account.
The divorced father of two teenagers said the ensuing hours had been a blur.
And income cannot, of course, be divorced from other factors.
Eventually Michèle left to live in Paris, taking with her their two children, Nico and Anya, and in 1993 they divorced.
Terry, now divorced from Tony, retrained as a nurse's assistant on $9 an hour.
I think it is terribly important – the parents might be divorced but they are still the parents of the children.
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