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
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
As the first act of Verdi’s “La Traviata” ends, Violetta, a high-end prostitute, is suffering the symptoms of tuberculosis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
While working on the opening section, Dostoevsky did not anticipate that the benevolent prostitute Sonya and the scoundrel Svidrigailov would later seize control of the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
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
It’s vulgar and vivacious, big and brutal, full of rivaling monarchies, Machiavellian ministers, feuding families, revengeful prostitutes, evil priests and a century-old witch, all vying for power in James’ extraordinarily imagined African kingdoms.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
He took characters normally portrayed in thick stereotype — prostitutes, gay men, addicts, housewives, trans women — and made viewers care about their happiness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
An Irish immigrant ministers to prostitutes from a South Bronx project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
Blacktown crawled with white people, with pimps, prostitutes, bootleggers, with hustlers of all kinds, with colorful characters, and with police and prohibition agents.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
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
The measure includes protections that allow a prostituted child or adult to avoid criminal charges if they can prove they were coerced into it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2011
He could not dismiss or even suspend the defrauders of the revenue or the public wretches who prostituted their official power for gold.
It isn’t about prostituting our pain of, you know, “Great. I’m going to go out there and purge all my emotions because I’m so damaged.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
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
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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