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Recent Examples of X-rated For the first seven years of the rating system (1969-1975), nearly half of the top films (33 of 70) were R- or X-rated. Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 26 July 2024 What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated. Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024 Granted, none of these are X-rated, but one of my concerns is that the intensity of this online relationship has grown quite exponentially in a very short time and could very well lead to actual X-rated. Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024 Keep the red boost light on with your right foot and the Riviera will eventually peak out at 105 mph, although the speedometer is X-rated above 85. Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for X-rated
Adjective
  • Why 'Shrinking' Is a Parents-Only Watch The themes, relationships, and conversations in this show are primarily adult in nature.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Adjective
  • To authenticate Trump's note and the obscene drawing that accompanied it, Journal reporters claim to have seen the album and talked to people knowledgeable about it.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Guests will enjoy the experience free from disruptive behavior, foul language, obscene gestures, fighting, unruly conduct or inconsiderate actions.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • During The Hollywood Reporter's Drama Actress roundtable in 2019, the actress revealed she was offered the role of Anastasia Steele in the erotic thriller adaptation, but declined it due to the excessive nude scenes.
    Diana Pearl, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Doubles, glitches, erotic dread, narrative dead-ends.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • As deadly wildfires raged across Southern California in January, a Los Angeles city official lamented to the city council and others how they were forced to listen to hateful, vulgar language from some members of the public.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Her choice to respond by telling me to 'shut the f*** up' and to 'calm my p*****' was vulgar, dismissive and escalated the issue entirely.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

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“X-rated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/X-rated. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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