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adulterate, adulterine, adulterous, extramarital, two-timing
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Sabrina Benayoun, a senior at Jericho High School, had her pick of about 30 Advanced Placement classes, more than 50 extracurricular clubs and field trips to Quebec and Paris. — Leslie Brody, WSJ, "Two New York School Districts Sit Close By, but Far Apart in Resources," 13 Mar. 2019 Abroad Graduation means freedom from classwork, exams, teachers, and extracurricular activities. — Teen Vogue, "What To Do After High School: 9 Things To Do Besides College," 4 Apr. 2019 Colombian schools refuse to add tejo as an extracurricular while parents push their children into more sober endeavors like soccer and cycling. — John Otis, WSJ, "Colombia Wants to Boost Its National Sport. That Might Mean Less Beer.," 4 Dec. 2018 In decades past, packages weren’t arriving daily, people weren’t working from home and from an office, parents weren’t asked to bring items to school each month, and kids didn’t participate in as many extracurricular activities. — Nicole Anzia, The Seattle Times, "5 ideas for dream storage spaces," 7 Jan. 2019 Remarque has a remarkable aptitude for sketching scenes of barracks life and extracurricular escapades. — Tobias Grey, WSJ, "An Antiwar Classic That Knew No Borders," 7 Dec. 2018 Students who have been diagnosed are asked to stay in their rooms and not attend classes or extracurricular activities. — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, "Colleges Try to Stop Spread of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease," 19 Oct. 2018 Zoey agrees to help with the show for the kind of extracurricular credit that looks good on prestige university applications; Ka-ho is given the choice of helping out or expulsion. — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Distinction' ('Fei tung faan heung'): Film Review," 27 June 2018 How the universities see themselves Different factors matter to different students, and a student's choice to attend a specific school include financial, academic, extracurricular and personal considerations. — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, "Which Arizona university is the best? It depends which rankings you value," 26 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'extracurricular.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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