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Recent Examples of promiscuity
Some may try to keep this feeling at bay, Brodsky explained, by changing jobs, houses, careers, or lovers; by embracing hobbies, travel, or promiscuity.
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Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
Interiors celebrate promiscuity, and the serpentine symbol that marks the entrance hall carpet can be spotted on the jewelry of staff uniforms.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
The role of Carmen was played with fiery promiscuity by ballerina Ariana Gonzalez, who was flirtatious with a fan in one scene and brandishing a knife in another.
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Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
Wind words proliferated and spread with untamed promiscuity, as did wind gods, all around the planet.
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Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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
The role of Carmen was played with fiery promiscuity by ballerina Ariana Gonzalez, who was flirtatious with a fan in one scene and brandishing a knife in another.
—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
Wind words proliferated and spread with untamed promiscuity, as did wind gods, all around the planet.
—
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuity
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The filings alleged adultery as the reason behind the divorce.
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Public opinion is against adultery.
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Following the news breaking, rumors of infidelity on both sides began circulating on social media.
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The Apartment is a daring dissection of toxicity in the story of an insurance clerk (Jack Lemmon) who lets his co-workers use his apartment to support their infidelity.
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Peacock’s adventures in treachery The Traitors was the top dog, scoring five prizes including Best Competition Series and Best Host for Alan Cumming.
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Upon learning of Ava’s treachery, Deborah HOWLS.
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Treating rumors as diagnostic signals of uncertainty or weak trust, rather than disloyalty, helps leaders improve communication and align words with observable actions.
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Easley also argued constructive criticism was too often viewed as disloyalty and that many employees felt safer remaining silent than challenging decisions.
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His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
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While there was a sprinkling of back-to-the-land hippies in my town, the free love and sexuality fluidity of the 1960s hadn’t reached us.
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If the landing had been faked, the Soviets would have figured it out and would have loved to reveal to the world America’s perfidy.
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Years ago, during his first term, Trump was lamenting the perfidy of his first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, the former Alabama senator.
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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.
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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.
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Alite faces multiple counts of extortion, corporate misconduct, loansharking and terroristic threats.
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Councilman John Alite, 63, of Englishtown, was arrested on Friday and charged with multiple counts of theft by extortion, corporate misconduct, usury and terroristic threats, according to the New Jersey Attorney General's office.
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“Promiscuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuity. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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