as in vice
the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money
prostitution is illegal in most states
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Recent Examples of prostitution
The gang’s operations were expanding to include the trafficking of migrants and prostitution.
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
In July, the rapper was found guilty of two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of the remaining offenses.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
The president has said ties with Epstein ended long before Epstein was indicted for soliciting prostitution in 2006.
—Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18 in Florida.
—Jenna Sundel
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
In July, the rapper was found guilty of two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of the remaining offenses.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
The president has said ties with Epstein ended long before Epstein was indicted for soliciting prostitution in 2006.
—Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18 in Florida.
—Jenna Sundel
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prostitution
harlotry
Noun
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Within the slippery world of harlotry—where class can be transcended and humanity bought—relationships form that defy our historical assumptions about the bounded categories of human experience.—
Sarah Marshall,
New Republic,
2 June 2017
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That's how my job eventually descended into harlotry: through the endless cat-and-mouse game of porntrepreneurs subverting Google's anti-smut policies.—
Lucas Peterson,
GQ,
22 May 2017
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“Prostitution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prostitution. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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