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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

I should mention that the saintly striver is all the while giving support to a former prostitute, hoping to open a hospital and enduring a lung condition with a terminal prognosis.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

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

In her alternation of stories, Byatt created a kinship, and a narrative equivalency, among princess, peasant, prostitute and professor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

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

Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters, bishops, prostitutes, acrobats, ballroom dancers and politicians.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his magic-realist imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, has died.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Always allergic to the lofty and the monumental, he proved a brilliant observer of life, especially life on the margins: He wrote with empathy of refugees, prostitutes, thieves, drunks and the homeless.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

An Irish immigrant ministers to prostitutes from a South Bronx project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021

Would someone bury them, or would they believe they were really 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

Pioneered in Sweden and adopted most recently in Canada and France, this strategy involves decriminalizing prostituted women and offering them housing, job training and other services.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2016

“Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches. Criminalisation puts the prostituted in prison,” said veteran women’s rights campaigner Gloria Steinem.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2015

So far as we can tell there was no case, during his first administration, in which the courts were prostituted to personal or party ends.

From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

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

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

Last month, Benjamin Bailar, a prominent stamp collector who served as postmaster general from 1975 to 1978, angrily resigned from the committee after accusing the postal service of "prostituting" its stamps program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2014

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