adultery
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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
Hence war, hence adultery, hence bestiality, Tim continues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Gbagbo hit back at her husband - through her lawyer, she accused Laurent of "blatant and well-known adultery" and "abandonment of the marital home".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the “grounds for divorce.”
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
It was almost as bad as adultery or stealing—maybe just as bad.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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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
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Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
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