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Recent Examples of coitus Paul, upon learning of their coitus, does not take it well. Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 19 May 2025 Villanueva, his instincts honed by his decades of service as a lawman, intuits that the only way a human being can reasonably incur a rug burn is via high-friction hotel room coitus with a 250-pound man. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025 Adding to these racial fetish undertones is a Black family servant whose coitus with Lucy’s soon-to-be sister-in-law (a white woman with box braids) is also constantly on display, leaving her to pleasure herself when he’s called away. Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024 On occasion, the coitus took place at the volunteers’ homes. Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023 One thing leads to another — just because returning screenwriter Reid Carolin says so — and Mike’s performance for Max ends with the two of them in bed, after an apparent act of off-camera coitus. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023 And there is a conversation about the necessity of being flexible during bunk-bed coitus. Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022 Chris Jericho had to introduce two new members of the Jericho Appreciation Society (Sammy and Tay), narrate near-coitus between Sammy and Tay, explain what a Suzuki Gun was and promote a six-man tag team match all in one promo. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 June 2022 The males also fight each other with their weapons, often ambushing another male mid-coitus. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
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Noun
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January saying that the federal government will only recognize two sexes: male and female.
    Sonam Sheth Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast serve as aggregation sites for sand tiger sharks, and the digital photographs captured by those in the water often show bite wounds on both sexes.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Painful intercourse is not a thing in your world.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 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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“Coitus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coitus. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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