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Recent Examples of virginity
The history of side-saddle, for example, comes from the fear that riding astride risks breaking a woman’s hymen, compromising the evidence of her virginity and, therefore, her value.
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting Pope.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s realized quite literally by the prolific Swedish actor Stig Järrel, who plays Satan as an aristocrat in a state of perpetual ocular discomfort due to Britt-Marie’s insistence on holding onto her virginity.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
That was when all that curriculum hit the market, and all of a sudden there was a way to package virginity and sell it.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting Pope.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s realized quite literally by the prolific Swedish actor Stig Järrel, who plays Satan as an aristocrat in a state of perpetual ocular discomfort due to Britt-Marie’s insistence on holding onto her virginity.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
That was when all that curriculum hit the market, and all of a sudden there was a way to package virginity and sell it.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virginity
Noun
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These songs may remind you of the comfortable virtues of another country craftsman, his mentor, Luke Combs.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
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At the same time, feminists have never quite known what to do with women like Schlafly or Waters, or, for that matter, with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, other than calling them hypocrites for having big careers while singing the virtues of staying home.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Our legislators need to get back to recognizing that they are not elected for their party affiliation or to meet the ideological purity tests of their donors, but rather to solve the problems of the people that reside in our great state.—
Jayden D'Onofrio,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2026
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Tapping into the soft skills that for millennia have allowed women to profit outside the bounds of conventional economy, the tradwife offers a vision of purity to her online audience in exchange for engagement and direct or indirect income.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Machado maintained his innocence to reporters postgame, but his history with the Red Sox did him no favors.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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Adapted for television by Adolescence co-creator, Emmy winner Jack Thorne, in Lord of the Flies, innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2026
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Her sister, sophomore Sayler Peck, is also a standout player and earned TABC All-Region honors and a spot on the Star-Telegram All-Area Team.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Apr. 2026
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Top honors in addition to One Battle After Another, went to The Pitt, KPop Demon Hunters, The Studio, Adolescence and Traitors.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
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Their genuine modesty and humility was really exciting to show.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2026
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His epistemological modesty produced a spirit of caution.—
David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Virginity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virginity. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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