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Definition of sexting
: the sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone
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Recent Examples of sexting from the Web
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Two years ago a third of the Plainfield High football team got caught in a sexting scandal that resulted in the team forfeiting a game.
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The public vote on their 10-year renewal came at a politically vulnerable time for Yenni, who was just acknowledging the sexting scandal.
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Getty After being embroiled in sexting scandals for years—most recently involving a minor—former congressman and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was also served divorce papers by his wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
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The former New York Democratic congressman will enter the plea in a federal courtroom in Manhattan in his latest sexting scandal involving a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina, the New York Times reports.
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Eleven days before the presidential election, Weiner's sexting turned into a political bomb for Democrats.
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Indeed, this is not the first sexting scandal that has embroiled Weiner’s political career.
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CNN reports that then-US Attorney Preet Bharara in New York is investigating allegations first reported in the Daily Mail, that Weiner had carried on a sexting relationship with the minor.
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Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty today in New York to a sexting relationship with a Gaston County teenager that may have helped turn the presidential election.
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Origin and Etymology of sexting
blend of sex and texting
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