prostitute
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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
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
What exactly made him cut off part of his ear and give it to a prostitute in Arles, in the south of France?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 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
At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, famously envisioned a “normal” Jewish state, with the ancient priests and seers supplanted by the prostitutes and thieves typical of a genuine nation.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
India is among a small handful of countries, including Canada and New Zealand, that have instituted legal protections for prostitutes.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby—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
“Because this demand cannot be met locally, traffickers will bring prostituted women and girls from other jurisdictions,” said Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, which opposes the bill.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019
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
The only one of the arts that can not be prostituted to a base use.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard
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
