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prostitute

[pros-ti-toot, -tyoot] / ˈprɒs tɪˌtut, -ˌtjut /




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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

BBC Verify searched all the circulars for 2008 and could find no reference to "informed choice" or "child prostitute" or any phrase similar to the one cited in the social media posts.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

Mary Magdalene, here named Miri of Magdala, seizes the opportunity to announce that she’s not a prostitute, as long thought, but a wealthy divorcee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you follow the Nordic model, you are obligated to offer services and alternatives to the people who are prostituted.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015

Sweden and other Nordic countries plus France have decriminalized and offer services to those who are prostituted, and criminalize the pimps and brothels who sell them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2014

He prostituted the noble weapon that Lagardere idolized to the service of the assassin, the advantage of the bully, and the revenge of the coward.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

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 Penn State, it was even worse than prostituting education for the sake of a football powerhouse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2011

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




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