same-sex
adjective
: of, relating to, or involving members of the same sex
same-sex twins
same-sex marriage
Examples of same-sex in a Sentence
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In the landmark Wichita Falls case a quarter-century ago, two picture books about same-sex parents were barely read until a political campaign targeted them; afterward, each title was checked out over a hundred times.
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European coalition government's work on pushing through a bill legalizing same-sex unions has been held back by resistance from his conservative coalition partner.
—Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
However, the current government has been working on a bill to regulate civil partnerships, including same-sex unions.
—CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
In a world that recognizes a wide range of gender identities and acknowledges attraction across those boundaries, the old mainstream assumption that same-sex facilities were inherently asexual—and therefore appropriate settings for nudity—no longer holds.
—Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
In 2022, Nash-Betts and Betts made history as the first same-sex couple to appear on the cover of Essence.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
But Cuomo himself has a long list of progressive accomplishments, including criminal justice reforms and victories for same-sex rights, which once earned him staunch support on the left.
—Brian Mann, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
But despite the production’s accomplished period physical trappings, there’s an air of very 21st-century thinking here — particularly in depictions of gender-blur and adult same-sex love within the Arab world — that feels more like wish-fulfillment than the film is prepared to acknowledge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Definitions of infertility vary, and some states exclude same-sex couples, single people, or those seeking egg freezing for genetic or gender-affirming reasons.
—Madison Chapman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European coalition government's work on pushing through a bill legalizing same-sex unions has been held back by resistance from his conservative coalition partner.
—Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
However, the current government has been working on a bill to regulate civil partnerships, including same-sex unions.
—CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
In a world that recognizes a wide range of gender identities and acknowledges attraction across those boundaries, the old mainstream assumption that same-sex facilities were inherently asexual—and therefore appropriate settings for nudity—no longer holds.
—Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
In 2022, Nash-Betts and Betts made history as the first same-sex couple to appear on the cover of Essence.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
But Cuomo himself has a long list of progressive accomplishments, including criminal justice reforms and victories for same-sex rights, which once earned him staunch support on the left.
—Brian Mann, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
But despite the production’s accomplished period physical trappings, there’s an air of very 21st-century thinking here — particularly in depictions of gender-blur and adult same-sex love within the Arab world — that feels more like wish-fulfillment than the film is prepared to acknowledge.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Definitions of infertility vary, and some states exclude same-sex couples, single people, or those seeking egg freezing for genetic or gender-affirming reasons.
—Madison Chapman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Same-sex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/same-sex. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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