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polygamy

[puh-lig-uh-mee] / pəˈlɪg ə mi /
NOUN
plural marriage
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Kenyan civil servant Geoffrey Mosiria called for the series to be banned in Kenya, arguing that it conflates polygamy with cheating, fraud and abuse.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

It is not, Nyathi is careful to point out, a straightforward story about polygamy.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Overall, the differences were smallest in monogamous species, while polygamy and pronounced size differences were associated with a more pronounced advantage for females.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2025

The DNA also revealed polygamy and “levirate unions,” in which closely related males—brothers, or a father and son—had children with the same woman.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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