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Recent Examples of free love
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Puritans went so far as to outlaw the celebration of Christmas in New England in 1659 because revelry often included feasting, drunkenness and promiscuity – not acceptable ways to honor the birth of Christ.—
Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
15 Dec. 2024
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Would the love affair add a new partner or would Los Angeles prove to be a third wheel?—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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Its success leads her to rebel, firstly through passionate love affairs with women and then by reclaiming her authorship.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Food, as is often said, is love.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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Outside of Hollywood, Saldaña has a deep love for food and culture.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The settlement also requires the league to maintain safeguards put into place after a pair of investigations released in late 2022 that found widespread misconduct that affected multiple teams, coaches and players.—
Anne M. Peterson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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Yet, there are also upshots in this shift in fan-player dynamic, not least the influence on women who allege mistreatment or misconduct by employers.—
Megan Feringa,
The Athletic,
3 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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Emanuel also happens to be Trump’s former agent, making the president regard Emanuel’s campaign contributions as an even greater magnitude of disloyalty, this source says.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
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After a season of treachery and deception, the winner or winners of The Traitors UK Season 3 have been revealed.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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This would be immediately followed by my dad standing up, racing over to my uncle, and sometimes grabbing him by the collar to stop him from completing an action that in their eyes seemed to be an act of utter betrayal and treachery.—
Wayne Chan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 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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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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