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Recent Examples of free love
Comics also exposed a scandalous side to American society with scenes of free love, secret identities, and gender-play.
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Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
The awkward love triangle depicted in the film is true to the free love spirit of the show's origins.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The generation that ushered in the birth control pill, natural childbirth, and free love really left us in the lurch for the third chapter of the story that begins with periods, includes babies, and ends with our ovaries closing up shop.
—Anne Fulenwider, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
Woodhull promoted free love, which only reinforced this representation.
—Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
The awkward love triangle depicted in the film is true to the free love spirit of the show's origins.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The generation that ushered in the birth control pill, natural childbirth, and free love really left us in the lurch for the third chapter of the story that begins with periods, includes babies, and ends with our ovaries closing up shop.
—Anne Fulenwider, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
Woodhull promoted free love, which only reinforced this representation.
—Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free love
Noun
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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
Noun
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Some argue that the HPV vaccine encourages promiscuity, an allegation that has been thoroughly debunked.—
Lisa Doggett,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2025
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The novel follows the green and all-too-relatable young girl as she is shaped by both her mother Melena's promiscuity and her father Frex's piety.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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The soccer star opens up about creating her first collection of tableware and her love affair with an espresso machine By Rachel Wallace March 19, 2025 All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.—
Rachel Wallace,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2025
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Ringo Starr and his Ludwig drums Starr’s love affair with his Ludwig drums stretches to the earliest days of the Beatles.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2025
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Enjoy a few photos of their love, over 56 years, below.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
14 Mar. 2025
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TikTok Reacts The video struck a chord with TikTok users, who flooded the comments with messages of love and support.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Despite early reports of abuse, the district allegedly failed to act, allowing Yeh to continue his misconduct until his conviction on 17 felony counts of child molestation, according to the lawsuit.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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Peltier’s attorneys and supporters would wage a decades-long battle through appeals, writs and petitions to circuit courts, federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court and three U.S. presidents, alleging numerous incidents of misconduct by the FBI in Peltier’s case.—
Tom White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, alienating a President seemingly intent on smashing anything approaching dissent or disloyalty is not a risk many Washington institutions are willing to take at the moment.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
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Another document, likely written by an officer, recorded acts of disloyalty by North Korean subordinates - a common practice in the totalitarian state, where citizens are encouraged to inform on each other.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
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His greatest dream, beside destroying Nato from within, is dividing the west and China - as a return favor for the treachery of Nixon’s demarche.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Witness was his 1952 manifesto on fellow-traveling American liberals and their treachery, which emboldened the Soviet Union.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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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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