noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
commit
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For the first time he was tempted to commit scientific adultery .
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Smith admits he did wrong by committing adultery with the wife of a Marine sergeant, while the enlisted man was overseas.
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He'd committed adultery with the wife of the local steward - the land agent for the lord of the manor.
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Had the woman committed adultery or not? they wondered.
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A Inc., has been Baccused of mishandling church funds and committing adultery .
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Sexy young blond women, both committing adultery , turn up as victims early on.
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Men or women convicted of drinking alcohol or committing adultery may be lashed in public 100 times.
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If both parties committed abandonment, adultery , or extreme cruelty, the union was still held to be inviolate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
commit adultery
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A Inc., has been Baccused of mishandling church funds and committing adultery.
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Had the woman committed adultery or not? they wondered.
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He'd committed adultery with the wife of the local steward - the land agent for the lord of the manor.
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Men or women convicted of drinking alcohol or committing adultery may be lashed in public 100 times.
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One obvious example is the almost universal ban against committing adultery with another man s wife.
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Sexy young blond women, both committing adultery, turn up as victims early on.
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Smith admits he did wrong by committing adultery with the wife of a Marine sergeant, while the enlisted man was overseas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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60% of men admit to committing adultery at some time during their marriages.
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She finally left her husband because of his adultery .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the teaching does treat adultery and divorce with the seriousness it deserves.
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Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary?
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Garth was found guilty of violating a lawful general regulation, indecent assault and adultery , and using indecent language.
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Monogamy is universal but adultery frequent.
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Not only was the act of adultery wrong, but even a lustful look.
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Why then has the military insisted that adultery is a crime?