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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
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The film is a lot less magical: Mother hosts a rather chaste art show at a local gallery featuring paintings and sculptures of women and dogs.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Gender policing is now a blood sport online, where women who seem to defy traditional expectations of staying hot, quiet, chaste, and weak are humiliated and attacked en masse.Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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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
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Although the history of Ireland’s treatment of unmarried women and their children is violent and bleak, the novella, like Bill’s life, is characterized by ordinary, small moments of love.Amanda Parrish Morgan, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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The children, Luis, 11, and Antonella, 4, are enrolled in school, and the parents even married in City Hall after 15 years together — a popular move among unmarried couples looking to streamline their asylum cases.Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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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
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Klan lawyers, however, falsely claimed the federal government was hunting and persecuting innocent men.Brittany Friedman / Made by History, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
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Dunn was also once a deputy sheriff, and says in his personal and professional opinion, Edgar is innocent.Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
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The Mediterranean diet, which focuses on extra virgin olive oil, fruits, vegetables, and fresh seafood, is popular in areas like Greece and southern Italy.Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, RDN, LD, Health, 6 Jan. 2025
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The whiskey is aged for approximately four years in virgin American oak barrels.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Celibate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/celibate. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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