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Answer: Treason, murder, obstruction, theft, smuggling, piracy, mutiny, desertion, bigamy, dueling, accepting the land grant on the Ridge under false pretenses.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 July 2024
But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
May 30: Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson shoots and kills American attorney Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2024
Section 241 in Mississippi's state constitution specifies 10 felonies—murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy—for which a conviction will result in a person losing their right to vote.
—Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 July 2024
But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
May 30: Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson shoots and kills American attorney Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2024
Section 241 in Mississippi's state constitution specifies 10 felonies—murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy—for which a conviction will result in a person losing their right to vote.
—Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigamy
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Married men and women having an affair ranked dead last in a 2022 Gallup poll of 19 behaviors, below polygamy and cloning humans, with 89% of Americans saying the affair is morally wrong.—
Joanna Allhands,
AZCentral.com,
23 July 2025
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His maternal grandmother raised him and his older brother, not entrusting them to one of his father’s three other wives (polygamy is common is South Sudanese culture).—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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The notion of destroying marriages and undoing family relationships would be extremely difficult for the Court to justify.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Subsequently, Pope Francis granted SSPX priests a slow trickle of faculties, such as the ability to officiate marriages or perform the sacrament of absolution in limited circumstances.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Nathan H. Lents,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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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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One particular enemy of Gauguin’s was Bishop Martin, a Catholic priest on Hiva Oa who did his best to stomp out local custom, forbidding tattooing, Polynesian dancing, and the customary practice of polyandry.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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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.—
Nathan H. Lents,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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While legacy agencies might still operate like Victorian-era matchmakers, arranging introductions between clients and journalists with no promises of matrimony, Spynn functions more like a Las Vegas wedding chapel — quick, certain and surprisingly effective.—
Ascend Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2025
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In defeat, the matrimony between manager, club and city had never been more visible.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Marriages are a strong predictor of births in China, where few children are born out of wedlock—prompting concern over the long-term economic impacts as the birth rate trends downward.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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An increase in marriages is a strong indicator of a forthcoming rise in births, as childbirth outside of wedlock is uncommon in South Korea.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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“Bigamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigamy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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