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Recent Examples of carnal
Adjective
With Sexy Drill, the artist and their carnal musings take centerstage. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025 Music does in deed play a big role in the trailer, which shows off a rural Jim Crow Era South setting and sees Black people cutting loose in melodious and carnal celebration. Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025 There's two parts of us, our highest good, and then our carnal, material self. Daniela Avila, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025 Even Agnes, who stands to earn the film an X rating with her carnal extracurricular activities, behaves in ugly ways. Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carnal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carnal
Adjective
  • But where Apex’s movement is fast-paced and its ever-dwindling map size forces players together over time to ratchet up tension, Marathon feels slow and mundane by comparison.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • Yet managers and leaders often struggle with how to help their employees find more meaningful moments in their work, especially when the tasks they are assigned are boring, mundane and tedious.
    Rachel Pacheco, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • That's according to researchers at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), who made a specific discovery about physical activity's brain benefits.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Rather than bearing imagery of the state or the monarchy, Elisabeth’s portraits were focused on her defining physical features, particularly her long, flowing hair.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Julius’s secretive couplings with a Latino gambler (Diego Calva) are discreet, never sensual like Hernández’s nude compositions.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The track stirred controversy at the time for its use of Catholic religious imagery in a sensual context.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The camerlengo also administers the goods and temporal rights of the Holy See until a new pope is chosen.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike image or text generation, music operates within strict temporal and structural constraints.
    Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s why Florida must implement mandatory bodily injury (BI) liability insurance.
    Richard D Schuler, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Tune into any bodily responses (ease, tension, vitality, etc.).
    Nancy Zamierowski, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • However, the professionalization of content creation also augmented social platforms’ business objectives, as corporate greed inevitably maximized profits at the expense of both users and creatives.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • To remove any terrestrial water the 50-year-old samples would have absorbed since their return to Earth, Yeo and her team baked the samples overnight in a vacuum furnace.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Scientists are concerned with how abiogenesis — the inception of life from non-living matter — could have occurred in the first place; some theories state that certain environments on Earth, like hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean or terrestrial hot springs, drove prebiotic processes.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Rick should have listened more carefully to the memorable monologue from Frank (Sam Rockwell), who described an endless, increasingly bizarre cycle of hedonism which led him to nowhere.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • At heritage steakhouses, beachside dining rooms and birthday-destination chains, diners are sparing no expense to indulge in a little midcentury hedonism by the coupe glass.
    Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Carnal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnal. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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