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Recent Examples of free love
If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
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Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
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Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The festival featured Brazilian psy trance music and focused on free love, spirit, and environmental preservation.
—Anna Gordon, Time, 9 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free love
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Howard sued his wife’s lover for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, according to court records.Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
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North Carolina is one of about a half-dozen states that allow lawsuits accusing a cheating spouse’s lover of alienation of affection and criminal conversation.EMERY P. DALESIO, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
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Nowadays, his audaciously eccentric nature, along with his extreme promiscuity, is souring into something far less palatable: a litany of horrific accusations.Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
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Russia is a conservative society that viewed the years of Yeltsin’s rule, and its onslaught of pornography and promiscuity, with horror.Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
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Fashion is having a love affair with Jean-Michel Basquiat.Andrea Bossi, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
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People really respond to that boy/girl love affair thing and that was sort of unintentional.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Our love and prayers are with his wife Stephanie, his children, family and friends.EW.com, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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McCullers explores how love can liberate a community and how easily that freedom and joy can slip away.The Week US, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Chief Judge Amanda Hunter appointed Jeff Lindsey to the role after Stanley’s disbarment — ordered in September over her misconduct in office — took effect Friday.Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2024
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An independent probe by Franchise concluded that the company had no involvement in—nor any knowledge of—Kahn’s alleged misconduct, according to Orlofsky.Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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His initial refusal to bend the knee—even trying for a last-minute coup at the Republican convention in Cleveland with a protest speech from the stage—put him in the MAGA column for disloyalty.Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Throughout the rest of the movie, Donald demonstrates his mastery of these methods in a relentless and brazen series of betrayals, disloyalties, cruelties.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Hosted by Alan Cumming, the game of treachery and deceit returns to Peacock on Thursday, January 9th.Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Politics is full of deceit, treachery, and betrayal. . . .Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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