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Recent Examples of promiscuity
Such creative promiscuity is paying dividends; León and his label, Socios Music, are reportedly poised to strike a lucrative joint-venture deal with a major record company.
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Craig Marks, New York Times, 27 May 2024
Drugs and alcohol continue to flow along with bisexual promiscuity and the discovery of S&M helps ease Lidia's demons.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 9 May 2024
Daniel makes his promiscuity entertaining with the song’s steady percussive bounce.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
In media, many bisexual characters become lazy plot devices to demonstrate promiscuity.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
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Craig Marks, New York Times, 27 May 2024
Drugs and alcohol continue to flow along with bisexual promiscuity and the discovery of S&M helps ease Lidia's demons.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 9 May 2024
Daniel makes his promiscuity entertaining with the song’s steady percussive bounce.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
In media, many bisexual characters become lazy plot devices to demonstrate promiscuity.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuity
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The article included other remarks related to Carter’s faith — such as the importance of the separation of church and state, a conviction born of Carter’s Southern Baptist upbringing — but the adultery comment opened a rift with Carter’s kin in Christ.Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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In Good Partner and a few other dramas—Bitter Sweet Hell, A Virtuous Business and Marry My Husband—adultery was the primary reason for divorce.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Power imbalance, psychological manipulation, and/or infidelity are commonly at play.Laura Ramadei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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One of Anna’s brothers, Daniel Keller, bashed Josh on social media in 2015, following the revelation of his pornography addiction and infidelity.Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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The eternal fight for liberty — slaves into gladiators, gladiators into free men — calls for courage and purpose beyond Lucius’s nightmarish expectations, uncovering the treachery and chicanery of Roman politics.Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 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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Political interference by Bashir's ruling political party, the officer said, had weakened the Sudanese military by repeatedly purging those suspected of disloyalty and promoting officers based on loyalty rather than competence.Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
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For now, the top leader appears determined to carry on his crusade against corruption and disloyalty.Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
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The science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein also allegedly influenced Manson, with its plot about a man from Mars who preached free love and caused a major movement on Earth.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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On one level, Lempicka’s work shows us what this could have looked like: soaring skyscrapers, slinky dresses, fast cars, free love.Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Those intrepid few who still clung to the belief that American perfidy shielded Duke’s players from true justice just had the rug pulled out from under them by Mangum herself.The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
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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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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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Advertisement One is known as the Brady database — a reference to the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brady vs. Maryland, which says prosecutors are required to turn over any evidence favorable to a defendant, including evidence of police misconduct.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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The Gossip Girl alum also names lead producer Jamey Heath as participating in misconduct in the complaint.Jen Juneau, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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