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
Many of those targeted by the eugenics policies were minorities, gay, transgender, disabled or poor, plus women who were considered promiscuous.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2022
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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
Many of those targeted by the eugenics policies were minorities, gay, transgender, disabled or poor, plus women who were considered promiscuous.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promiscuous
Adjective
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The approach to furniture and art is gloriously eclectic.—
Bridget Mills-Powell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
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That means in the community’s heart along eclectic Andy Rosse Lane, visitors are stocking up on supplies at The Island Store, grabbing coffee and ice cream at Latte Da, and sipping cocktails and munching on seafood at Keylime Bistro.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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Ovenbird Warblers such as the ovenbird are often difficult to spot, so learning their widely varied songs is essential to identification.—
Christopher Gangemi,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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Nearly a dozen fires have, together, consumed more than 26,000 acres of varied terrain in the region over the last week, in remote island chaparral as well as brushy foothills bordering neighborhoods.—
Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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The recycling center would take household materials like electronics, textiles, shoes, food scraps, mixed paper, cardboard, plastics, metal cans, and glass.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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Announcing its hardcore aspirations with a moody steel-blue palette that suffuses the rural setting with dread, the film takes place almost entirely on a remote cow farm, the home of a mixed-race family of three.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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What sets a muffuletta, that iconic sandwich from New Orleans, apart from other sandwiches similarly stuffed with assorted deli meats is the olive salad that’s slathered across the bread.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 May 2026
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Her chief lieutenants in this operation are Bronco (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Sid (Henry Cavill), who specialize in intimidation, surveillance, bribery, and other assorted sins.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Border Patrol teams led by Bovino carried out sweeping and often indiscriminate immigration roundups and stops in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Two months later, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon spearheaded a suit against the federal Department of Homeland Security for what plaintiffs saw as indiscriminate use of chemical munitions, including pepper balls, to control crowds around a Portland ICE office.—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
11 May 2026
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The family belongs to Sudan’s Nuba minority, a Black, ethnically diverse group of some three million people indigenous to the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, an oil-rich, agricultural region next to Darfur.—
Annie Hylton,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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The Proust Questionnaire, the static back page of Vanity Fair’s book for decades, will inspire interviews with a diverse set of public figures and will be filmed at the homes of subjects.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
14 May 2026
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“Promiscuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promiscuous. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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