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The authors were radical women from various backgrounds—one was an impoverished widow and another a onetime prostitute, while a third had been a princess who chopped off her hair moments before her wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

He was the son of a prostitute, who died when he was 5, and was raised by an aunt in Jacarezinho, a favela in the city.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2023

A skeleton covered in red ochre, which is naturally occurring iron oxide, Prof Buckland presumed The Red "Lady" to be a Roman prostitute, or witch.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023

While working on the opening section, Dostoevsky did not anticipate that the benevolent prostitute Sonya and the scoundrel Svidrigailov would later seize control of the narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

She was also an advocate for “free love,” a blackmailer, an accused bigamist, possibly a prostitute, and a spiritualist who claimed she channeled the spirit of Demosthenes, a statesman from ancient Greece.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In 2020, Loren starred in “The Life Ahead,” which was directed by her son Edoardo, as a Holocaust survivor who cares for the children of prostitutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, famously envisioned a “normal” Jewish state, with the ancient priests and seers supplanted by the prostitutes and thieves typical of a genuine nation.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

India is among a small handful of countries, including Canada and New Zealand, that have instituted legal protections for prostitutes.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2022

Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby—thieves and prostitutes.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

Key to the Nordic model, now implemented in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Northern Ireland, Canada, France, Ireland and Israel, is creating an exit strategy for prostituted people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

“Art, music, architecture, literature, all seem to have been prostituted in this commercial age to the greed for money,” Brundage wrote in “The Significance of Amateur Sport.”

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

He suggested, instead, that the prostituted should be offered a way out of the business, via housing, job training and other services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

“He prostituted his own son’s death,” she told me.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2017

He plundered the people, cheated the proprietors, and on all occasions seems to have prostituted his delegated power to purposes of private gain.

From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by F. A. (Freeland A.) Carter

Mr. Russell promised to be “as balanced as is humanly possible, without prostituting myself,” adding, “There are so many controversial issues that I have to double up to save time.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

It isn’t about prostituting our pain of, you know, “Great. I’m going to go out there and purge all my emotions because I’m so damaged.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

Former Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar resigned from his position on the Citizen's Advisory Stamp Committee, stating that the Potter stamps amounted to "prostituting" the US stamp programme.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2017

Police said they do not think Lopez Aguilar was involved in trafficking or prostituting of the girls, but the investigation led police to the missing girls.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017

At night he began to have trouble sleeping, to feel he was prostituting his conscience and his editorial responsibilities.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin