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bigamy

[big-uh-mee] / ˈbɪg ə mi /
NOUN
polygamy
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The state bigamy law won’t necessarily bar West Hollywood from registering relationships inside its two-mile-square borders.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

In 2021, Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong - one of China's biggest state-controlled asset management companies - was executed after being found guilty of corruption and bigamy.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

Under the Mississippi Constitution, people convicted of 10 specific felonies — including murder, forgery and bigamy — lose the right to vote.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2023

Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.

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




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