as in eclectic
consisting of many things of different sorts
since I just collect stamps that I happen to like, my collection is pretty promiscuous
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Recent Examples of promiscuous
The only future David can imagine is finally no future, a life in which endless, promiscuous variety—each night a different, meaningless boy—offers no variety at all, in which everything can only ever be the same, the same, the same, the same.
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Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The revival premiered on HBO Max in late 2021, featuring three of the four original stars, minus Kim Cattrall's promiscuous Samantha Jones.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Prince Andrew is getting more and more on Prince William’s bad side as more details come out about the Duke of York‘s promiscuous and controversial past.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 9 Aug. 2025
Jackie was most interested in my character Emily, a promiscuous 35-year-old prep cook.
—Darcey Steinke, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The revival premiered on HBO Max in late 2021, featuring three of the four original stars, minus Kim Cattrall's promiscuous Samantha Jones.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Prince Andrew is getting more and more on Prince William’s bad side as more details come out about the Duke of York‘s promiscuous and controversial past.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 9 Aug. 2025
Jackie was most interested in my character Emily, a promiscuous 35-year-old prep cook.
—Darcey Steinke, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuous
Adjective
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The eclectic sourcing reflects its notion of conservation.—
John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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Chef Misti Norris, formerly of the eclectic Petra and the Beast, has created Far Out’s menu.—
Sarah Blaskovich,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Their salaries and bonuses differed to those offered to Russian soldiers, and even varied between the recruits.—
Larry Madowo,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Different forecasts offer varied outlooks, with some predicting a slow warm-up and others suggesting above-average temperatures for April and May.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Her course to bobsled success has been arduous and circuitous, including moments of firsts for a woman – one of the firsts to pilot a mixed-gender team in four-man, and the first to drive an all-female team against men in a World Cup – and fights for a woman.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Along the way, hikers are surrounded by mafic southern mixed chaparral, a unique type of chaparral vegetation that is found in mafic soils, which are rich in magnesium and iron.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Add assorted sprinkles to make this jar cake adorably festive.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
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In 2022, Mimosa Echard won the Prix Marcel Duchamp and exhibited the installation Escape more at the Centre Pompidou in Paris—a display consisting of glass walls, streams of water and urine, pollen, ginkgo tree eggs, newsprint, films, and assorted tchotchkes, among other items.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That longstanding practices can be changed on a whim to justify indiscriminate detentions.—
Marilyn Carlson Nelson,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Among the apparently unlawful actions recounted by Menendez are the arrest of peaceful protesters and legal observers, the stop and sometimes arrest of drivers monitoring ICE, and the indiscriminate use of pepper spray, likely in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The new installment promises challenges across diverse locations, from navigating the Angolan desert in track vehicles to immersing in Malaysia’s automotive scene and testing American performance cars in California.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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Everyone, for different reasons, will be watching to see if this experiment in democratic socialist governance in a city as diverse and unwieldy as New York City will succeed or fail.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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