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Recent Examples of coition Put another way, the three latest Brood X generation map perfectly to milestones in my life cycle: birth, coition, procreation. Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021 But the course of the hunt itself is unnameable and uncontrollable, like coition. Roberto Calasso, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coition
Noun
  • So no therapy will work equally well, or even in the same manner, for both sexes.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Balls move the plot along in Austen’s novels because, much like the novel itself, a dance is a codified art form and the space where relations between the sexes are tested.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Echard consistently denied that intercourse had happened, saying their contact was limited to oral sex, and accused Owens of fabricating medical documents and manipulating pregnancy evidence.
    Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Researchers in Taiwan documented this rare case of a predator exploiting its prey’s mating signal to its own advantage.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Landscape Second Category Fauna And Flora After mating, a male leopard must escape the female’s claws within seconds.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As for Cohen’s next novel, Beautiful Losers, which was set in an apartment in Montreal as a bereaved and lust‑tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead, there was a sharp divide of opinion internally at Viking.
    Paul Slovak September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Song Seok-ha, 67, who has been protesting every day for five years near the US Embassy in Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance, was concerned about long-term damage to relations.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Coition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coition. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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