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Recent Examples of dissolute Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, moved across the country following the death of his dissolute, larger-than-life father, and made a series of homes in mill towns north of Boston with his mother, who was a schoolteacher, and his younger sister. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025 Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall. Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024 But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause. Maurice Samuels / Made By History, TIME, 21 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for dissolute
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  • The story of corrupt small-town cops taking on a former Marine was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Delegates and party leaders described it as a corrupt and hypocritical maneuver from the governor.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • Smoke will also lead to degraded air quality.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The challenge grows in degraded or denied GPS environments, where many existing bombs lose precision.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • But many Americans who don't meet the new criteria do still want to get vaccinated to avoid getting sick or spreading the virus to vulnerable family members.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Harry, who served in the British Armed Forces for 10 years, launched The Invictus Games in London in 2014 to honor active duty and veteran service members who have been wounded, injured or sick on the job.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Dissolute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissolute. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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