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Recent Examples of promiscuity
Set in the 1970s, the novel tells the story of the return of Tieta to the remote village of Santana do Agreste 26 years after being banished for promiscuity, beaten and expelled by her father in front of all the town’s people.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
Mirra’s promiscuity was the provenance of her father.
—Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.
—Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
Hector, then 28, mentored young actors and fretted about promoting promiscuity.
—Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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The book presents itself as a comic take on the classic adultery novel and a send-up of a narrow, self-conscious group of downwardly mobile New Yorkers.—
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The initial batch of documents showed that Angela Paxton sought the divorce on the grounds that Ken Paxton had committed adultery, but included no additional details.—
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The Woods brand was badly dinged by his November 2009 car crash and infidelity scandal, but sponsors returned for the comeback story, including his 2019 Masters title.—
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There has been rumored infidelity aimed at both parties in addition to other grievances.—
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With season 4 rapidly approaching, now's the time to prepare for the treachery to come.—
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Instead of being killed, Ashur takes Spartacus’ life and is consequently rewarded for his treachery by the Roman Empire.—
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To quit, meanwhile, would be to open themselves to charges of disloyalty or weakness or both.—
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Even after Trump’s November 2024 win, Duncan still called himself a Republican, despite the Georgia Republican Party expelling him in January for disloyalty.—
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Noyes and his followers aimed to create New Jerusalem in their little community in Putney, Vermont — in part through free love.—
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One major influence in the vibe shift was the free love movement, represented here by characters from some of the most memorable romances ever made—among them Breathless, West Side Story, and Annie Hall.—
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Ever since, the president and his closest allies haven’t stopped trying to repackage the perfidy as patriotism.—
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The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.—
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Brenay Kennard, a lifestyle content creator with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok, is at the center of a civil lawsuit that has made national headlines, in which she is accused of criminal conversation and alienation of affection.—
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According to the verdict form, the jury found Kennard liable for $250,000 for the criminal conversation claim and awarded another $1.5 million in damages for the alienation of affection claim.—
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Its investigative arm reviews officer misconduct complaints, and is expected to one day replace the police department’s internal affairs division.—
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The panel assessed the LAPD’s handling of discipline, misconduct complaints, excessive force by officers and other issues.—
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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