1
as in degraded
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
a serious writer prostituting himself by writing pulp novels for money
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2
as in abused
to put to a bad or improper use
urged not to prostitute her musical talents by writing jingles for TV commercials
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prostituted
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Over 15 years, there were no meaningful rate increases while inflation degraded the pay.—
Josie Reich,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2026 -
The upper-end medical alert products employ GPS augmented cellular triangulation and Wi-Fi positioning to sustain location accuracy even in environments where the GPS signal is degraded or lost.—
Craig Lebrau,
USA Today,
19 Jan. 2026
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The department has said the release of the files was delayed by redactions required to protect the identities of those who were abused.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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Tobin became an early advocate for establishing regulatory thresholds to distinguish intentional administration from environmental exposure to drugs commonly abused by humans.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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His mind is warped, his sense of morality corrupted.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2026
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Trump has thoroughly corrupted the Justice Department, but its selective prosecutions of his foes have been thwarted by judges and, more strikingly, by grand juries.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2025
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Once that data escapes, it can be misused in ways that last for years.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Airpower, rather than being employed strategically, was increasingly misused.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Murry corrupted and perverted and destroyed Katherine both as a person and a writer […] Her gifts were those of an intense realist, with a superb sense of ironic humour and fundamental cynicism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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They’ll be driven out of certain platforms; they’ll be made to feel unwelcome; they’ll be shamed in lots of ways, and humiliated.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2026
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Story just watched in person as his team beat Ohio State for the Big Ten title, destroyed Alabama in the Rose Bowl and humiliated Oregon in the Peach Bowl.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Within this world no others exist, except as things to be debased.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Dogville, from 2003, is an experimental Lars von Trier film shot on a stage set in which Kidman plays a woman debased and abused by the inhabitants of a small town.—
Wendell Steavenson,
Vogue,
8 Oct. 2025
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Current models of super-Eddington accretion predict that these features should be weakened or absent when growth becomes so extreme.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump took it a step further in December, with an executive order that further weakened state-level guardrails for AI development.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Prostituted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prostituted. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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