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Recent Examples of free love
Woodhull promoted free love, which only reinforced this representation.
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Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
If those names conjure images of hazy sunlight, wildflower fields and free love — with Beatles music playing in the background — that is no accident.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 July 2024
Multiple cultural trends converged: the crackdown on obscenity, the Gospel of Love, feminism, and above all, perhaps, the doctrine of free love promoted by Woodhull.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Unrest over Vietnam and civil rights, free love and gay liberation erupted around the Bay Area, fueled in part by Easterners who came seeking a break from society.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free love
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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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Nowadays, his audaciously eccentric nature, along with his extreme promiscuity, is souring into something far less palatable: a litany of horrific accusations.Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
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Russia is a conservative society that viewed the years of Yeltsin’s rule, and its onslaught of pornography and promiscuity, with horror.Robert David English, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2017
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While deep chocolate brown has been a hero of 2024 color trends, Mocha Mousse is a less serious, more approachable evolution of fashion’s love affair with the neutral hue, marrying luxury with familiarity.Ashley Davis, WWD, 6 Dec. 2024
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This bruising love affair takes place in 1989 when super-ripped biceps were ogled with freakish fascination — including by Glass’ camera, which gawks as Lou pokes and licks Jackie in slow-motion.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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But Samra survived, and after university, with a bachelor's and master's in food science, Samra met an American soldier in the U.S. Air Force, fell in love and married.Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Divine intervention comes in the form of Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel who helps transform the community for the better — though things take a turn when Dudley falls in love with the titular bishop's wife (Loretta Young).Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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About an equal number of men and women have come forward to accuse Combs of misconduct, with the accusations spanning over a 20-year period, the BBC reported, citing Buzbee.Charna Flam, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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The Durham prosecutor who championed Mangum's case was disbarred for lying and misconduct.CBS News, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
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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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Those accused of disloyalty or dissent face brutal punishments, including imprisonment in labor camps, torture, or execution.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 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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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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On March 4, 1798, the first dispatches from France finally arrived and exposed the depths of French perfidy.Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made by History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Free love.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free%20love. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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