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Recent Examples of celibateThis memoir describes the period of time that its author, a glamorous French fashion-magazine editor, spent voluntarily celibate in her late 20s.—Melissa Febos, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025 Febos finds common ground with both voluntarily and involuntarily celibate individuals.—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 5 June 2025 When Pope Francis convened Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican in 2019 to discuss the ordination of married men in remote parts of South America, the meeting raised expectations about the possibility of revolutionizing the celibate priesthood.—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025 For many traditionalists, effective enforcement of this teaching would mean cracking down on homosexuality among the clergy, including gay clergy who are celibate and chaste.—Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018 See All Example Sentences for celibate
Ivan Neville has been on a few times and always talks being abstinent.
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Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
As a purist, Murray defines sobriety as being completely abstinent from habit-forming substances that could cause dependency, including prescription drugs like Xanax and Suboxone.
Perhaps, curled inside the turbulent virginal atmosphere, Helm dreams of being a storm, has a prophetic vision of destruction, feels a natural calling.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Official portraits projected her as a modern iteration of 19th-century royal mothers—soft, demure, virginal.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
Given sun in just the proper dose, which is no more than three or four hours of direct daily exposure, its innocent look of youth may persist for a decade.
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