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adultery

[uh-duhl-tuh-ree] / əˈdʌl tə ri /


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State Sen. Angela Paxton said in a 2025 divorce filing that Paxton, whom she accused of adultery, moved out of their Collin County home a year earlier.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

She was accused of adultery, incest and treason and was executed.

From BBC May 1, 2026

We are a long way from those midcentury stories, like “Citizen Kane,” whose decisive moments hinged on adultery.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

The mystery that Cave carves out of Fred’s apparent adultery is so thin that it’s transparent.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2025

Supporters of Adams said that Rachel Jackson was guilty of adultery and bigamy.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Marry Me: 'It crossed my mind to keep running totals of the divorces, separations, adulteries, sexual humiliations, maimings, deaths and thwarted hopes that these tiny stories compass.'

From The Guardian Feb. 8, 2013

Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence then the truth of the proposition is evident, that chastity cannot be predicated of those who abstain from adulteries merely for various external reasons.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg




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