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adulterous

[uh-duhl-ter-uhs] / əˈdʌl tər əs /


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As if thunderstruck, Leontes becomes irredeemably convinced that Polixenes’ acquiescence reveals an adulterous relationship between the two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Nearly a decade later, after a fight with her adulterous husband, the 25-year-old Follett left her apartment in Brookline, Mass., with $30 in her pocket and a notebook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

It was to Mr. Badinter that Mr. Mitterrand turned in 1984 to countersign, in strict secrecy, the document in which the president recognized Mazarine Pingeot, his daughter from an adulterous relationship.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

I feel like the message of Jesus is clearly one of love—the adulterous woman in the Gospel of John, “You who are without sin cast the first stone.”

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2024

So this is what happened to the man who liberated the adulterous woman.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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