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Recent Examples of free love
Woodstock was the peak of the hippie movement, which revolved around free love, recreational drug use and opposition to the Vietnam War.
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Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
The ’60s and ’70s had free love and psychedelics.
—Mj Franklin, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
—Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
—Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
The ’60s and ’70s had free love and psychedelics.
—Mj Franklin, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
—Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
From the free love movement to emerging regulations, the design team at GM contended with a slew of changes.
—Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free love
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Brenay Kennard, a lifestyle content creator with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok, is at the center of a civil lawsuit that has made national headlines, in which she is accused of criminal conversation and alienation of affection.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
12 Nov. 2025
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According to the verdict form, the jury found Kennard liable for $250,000 for the criminal conversation claim and awarded another $1.5 million in damages for the alienation of affection claim.—
Cristian Santana,
NBC news,
12 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Some may try to keep this feeling at bay, Brodsky explained, by changing jobs, houses, careers, or lovers; by embracing hobbies, travel, or promiscuity.—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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Interiors celebrate promiscuity, and the serpentine symbol that marks the entrance hall carpet can be spotted on the jewelry of staff uniforms.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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Fashion’s love affair with Schiaparelli has never been tepid.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2026
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As of late March, the equity market has officially flipped the script on its longtime love affair with Big Tech.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The story begins on a train, somewhat subverts the typical strangers-on-a-train narrative in which a chance encounter leads to a love story (that is, the Linklater version rather than the Hitchcock one).—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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The 15-year-old has a strong love for reading and often chooses chapter books, happily spending time getting lost in a good story.—
The Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
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The costs of decades of misconduct by Chicago police have grown enormous as the city settles lawsuit after lawsuit using expensive private counsel to handle most of the work.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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And of course, Andrew being stripped of his titles and evicted from Royal Lodge, only to then be arrested for suspicion of misconduct in public office.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
30 Mar. 2026
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Pictures removed Azmoun later removed the pictures but was still lambasted on state TV on Thursday with soccer pundit Mohammad Misaghi saying the striker’s actions had been an act of disloyalty.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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Research on group dynamics shows that dissent is often interpreted as disloyalty rather than contribution.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Undocumented immigrants venture from Mexico, often underestimating of the treachery of the landscape.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Jonathan Cute kept probing the murky realms between tourism and treachery.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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Any time there is a crisis in Iran, the 1953 British-American coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh is dusted off as Exhibit A in the case against Western perfidy.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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But the mayor’s dramatic tale of his predecessor’s fiscal fiddling was designed with a clear political agenda in mind: both to underline the magnitude of the problem and to identify the villains responsible for this perfidy.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
29 Jan. 2026
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