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Recent Examples of celibate
Julia Fox, Lenny Kravitz and Khloé Kardashian have all come out as celibate in the last three months.
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Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
As if women didn’t already have enough reason to fear men, the rise of the incel (involuntarily celibate) movement surely represents one of the most disheartening and dangerous subcultures to have sprung from the internet’s rotten skull.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 6 June 2024
Supporters of Sabarimala’s ban argue that no other Ayyappan temple restricts women’s access because nowhere else does Ayyappan appear in his celibate ascetic form.
—Deepa Das Acevedo, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2019
Lenny Kravitz has been celibate for almost a decade and Ice-T does not approve.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 31 May 2024
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Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
As if women didn’t already have enough reason to fear men, the rise of the incel (involuntarily celibate) movement surely represents one of the most disheartening and dangerous subcultures to have sprung from the internet’s rotten skull.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 6 June 2024
Supporters of Sabarimala’s ban argue that no other Ayyappan temple restricts women’s access because nowhere else does Ayyappan appear in his celibate ascetic form.
—Deepa Das Acevedo, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2019
Lenny Kravitz has been celibate for almost a decade and Ice-T does not approve.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 31 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for celibate
Adjective
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Soil and Water Well-draining soil is critical for chaste trees.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Jan. 2025
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The chaste, optimistic, and conciliatory Tim Scott represents the polar opposite of Donald Trump’s apocalyptic cynicism.—
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airmail.news,
24 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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The cross-continent trek for Rye Riptides, which students and now-retired Rye Junior High School science teacher Sheila Adams stuffed with photos of the Rye students, a facemask with their signatures on it, fall leaves, acorns and state quarters, was conducted with the help of Educational Passages.—
Ian Lenahan,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2022
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The totem pole was carved by members of the Lummi Nation and is being transported from their home in Washington state to Washington, D.C., as part of a 15-day, cross-continent journey to advocate for the protection of sacred places and the expansion of tribal sovereignty rights.—
Zak Podmore,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
18 July 2021
Adjective
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Erika, the titular piano teacher, is an unmarried woman in her late 30s who lives in Vienna with her abusive and overbearing mother; violent altercations between the two aren’t rare.—
Ilana Masad,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2025
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In this year’s election, virtually every demographic in the country shifted toward Trump—younger women, unmarried women, non-white women, indeed all women; Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Arab Americans.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Her approach is a clean break from the 19th-century tradition of American landscape art, in which de facto propagandists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole depicted land as radiant and virginal, the birthright of any colonial buccaneer drunk on Manifest Destiny.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Depp goes beyond Ellen’s virginal purity to complicate our understanding of this character’s relationship to darkness — how she is at once disturbed by and deeply intimate with it.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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With limited time, Melissa must determine if an innocent man will be framed for a crime her father committed.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For olive oil, Jesse suggests a standard extra virgin variety for flavor, but not necessarily the priciest one, reserving the fancy oil for drizzling on top.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appétit,
9 Jan. 2025
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Here are 12 best extra virgin olive oils for roasting, drizzling, dipping and more.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
4 Oct. 2024
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“Celibate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/celibate. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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