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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
Noun
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Dunhill’s love affair with the big screen is a continuous one.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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Luis Suarez’s love affair with facing Norwich had already brought him two trebles in four previous meetings — both at Carrow Road and against goalkeeper John Ruddy.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Post Malone and his new love have a taste for the finer things.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, home products also got tons of love, with small-space storage solutions and WFH furniture getting solid traction from our shopping stories.—
Venus Wong,
Refinery29,
7 Apr. 2025
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Instead, each case involved egregious misconduct, including the wholesale fabrication of news stories.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Lost in Translation actor discussed the allegation of inappropriate misconduct that led to production halting Aziz Ansari's unfinished film Being Mortal and, later, an investigation.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Their internment was declared permissible under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that allowed the wartime detention and deportation of noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian ancestry without any evidence of disloyalty.—
Karen Ebel,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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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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Because of that treachery Castor was a pure mortal, but Pollux was a half god.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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After weeks of treachery and deception, the final roundtable has been viewed, and the winner or winners for The Traitors Season 3 have been revealed.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 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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