as in extracurricular
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
adulterine fiction often portrays the illicit lovers sympathetically
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Without the tax, OCPS would lose about $256 million in funding that pays for about 2,000 teachers and several dozen extracurricular programs like sports and the arts.
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Avelar is a part of an extracurricular program run by America SCORES Bay Area, a nonprofit that allows students to learn and play the sport of soccer, as well as honing some of their academic skills through poetry.
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Fiction is inherently adulterous.
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But the gamesmanship, foreshadowing the adulterous antics of Harold Pinter’s plays, escalates perilously.
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Black employed Epstein has a wealth management adviser, but also allegedly confided in him about personal matters, including extramarital affairs that ended in nondisclosure agreements.
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Cue a whole host of dodgy deals and shady string-pulling, not to mention an extramarital affair, as the entirely fictional — but no doubt true to life — character abandons any sense of morality.
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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