massage parlor

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Recent Examples of massage parlor No longer the police chief, he was acquitted in 1984 of wounding a massage parlor operator in a shooting that Skinner again said was in self-defense. Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025 Sixteen massage therapists claimed Tucker engaged in inappropriate behavior at more than a half-dozen massage parlors between 2012 and 2016. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Iris Moon, associate curator in The Met’s department of European sculpture and decorative arts, tells Vogue that the idea for the exhibition traces back to the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, when a white gunman fatally shot eight people, including six Asian women, at three massage parlors. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025 The movie follows the lives of Chinese immigrants working at a massage parlor in Queens, where their dreams are disrupted by sudden tragedy. Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for massage parlor
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Noun
  • The city has sued a handful of property owners seeking to label their properties as public nuisances under the state's bawdy house statute.
    Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2019
  • There was probably at least one bawdy house, but it isn’t mentioned.
    Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 7 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • De facto prostitution zones and pop-up brothels would depress real estate values and increase the strain on our overburdened city already grappling with affordability and quality-of-life issues.
    Sonia Ossorio, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
  • One of the houses was secretly operating as a brothel.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

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