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In a press release, Pete Quinlan, an animal care technician at the college, said these virgin births, a form of asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis, are rare and even less likely to occur in the same reptile twice.
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Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
To editors of the time, the most marketable image of Dickinson the poet was that of the eccentric, reclusive, asexual woman in white.
—Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 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
Once fully grown, the medusae spawn a colony and repeat the asexual reproduction process.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
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Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
To editors of the time, the most marketable image of Dickinson the poet was that of the eccentric, reclusive, asexual woman in white.
—Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 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
Once fully grown, the medusae spawn a colony and repeat the asexual reproduction process.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for asexual
sexless
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But the whiff of queerness is a red herring — this Hamlet is too sexless to swing in any particular direction.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
5 May 2026
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All told, the pursuit of finding love through a swipe has created a generation of burned out, sexless singles distrustful of dating apps.—
Jason Parham,
Wired News,
4 May 2026
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“Asexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asexual. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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