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Recent Examples of monogamy
Vasopressin complements oxytocin by encouraging monogamy, loyalty and protective behaviors, supporting long-term attachment.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Interestingly, Carter notes that several men in the study firmly believed that humans are not biologically built for monogamy—suggesting that their infidelity was a natural and inevitable expression of human nature.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
How to break the cycle of serial monogamy The good news?
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
Escorting satisfied some of her thirst, but the work was also a way to defy the laws and prescriptions that govern so much of monogamy.
—Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Interestingly, Carter notes that several men in the study firmly believed that humans are not biologically built for monogamy—suggesting that their infidelity was a natural and inevitable expression of human nature.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
How to break the cycle of serial monogamy The good news?
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
Escorting satisfied some of her thirst, but the work was also a way to defy the laws and prescriptions that govern so much of monogamy.
—Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monogamy
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More than 70 years ago, Arizona took an aggressive step to crack down on polygamy with a mass arrest in Colorado City whose effects are still felt today.Jeremy Duda, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
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The raid drove polygamy in fundamentalist Mormon communities further underground and allowed people like Warren Jeffs to rally followers by using their fear of the government.Jeremy Duda, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
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The transatlantic trade in enslaved people, which produced a dearth of men in West Africa, helps explain the comparatively high prevalence of polygyny there now.Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
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His son has been married four times and resurrected the long-dead institution of polygyny.Tamara Loos, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2020
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Milestones were squibs about births, deaths, and marriages, bits of information culled from newspapers and the wire services.John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lopez and Affleck would later call off their engagement, blaming too much media attention, going on to separate relationships and marriages before rekindling their romance two decades later.Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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Seeking Brother Husband's Kenya gets real with a virtual stranger about her domestic arrangement in this Sunday's episode of the TLC polyandry series.Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
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This equally applies to the practice of polyandry.Zamira Rahim, CNN, 28 June 2021
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The multi-billion-dollar, decade-long education plan was vetoed by former Gov. Hogan but like other proposals, made it through after Democrats voted to override that veto.Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 14 Jan. 2025
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Under the latest proposals, Israeli forces would maintain a presence along the Philadelphi Corridor – a narrow strip of land along the Egypt-Gaza border – during the first phase of the agreement, the officials said.Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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The two actors met in 2007 after Reynolds called off his engagement with rock legend Alanis Morisette.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Jan. 2025
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The structure of American power thus creates competing pressures for detachment and engagement.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Multiple nightclubs stayed open well past the time that bars in St. Louis and elsewhere in Missouri closed, luring people across the Mississippi with the promise of a party that didn’t stop.Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
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Flores listened but made few comments and fewer promises.Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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Their crowded compartment is occupied by another newly married couple, strangers Pradeep Singh (Bhaskar Jha) and Jaya Tripathi (Pratibha Ranta), whose betrothal is more reluctant.Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
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Dobrev and White announced their betrothal to Vogue, which is only fair since White used the mag as a reason to trick Dobrev out of the house.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Monogamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monogamy. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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