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Recent Examples of copulateReligious leaders specified days on which, for medical or liturgical reasons, married couples were not to copulate—one Irish rule book from the early seventh century excluded a good two-thirds of the year.—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025 Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025 On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 Advertisement The lawsuit alleges Harris comforted the boy and during the encounter began forcibly orally copulating the teen.—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for copulate
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sleep
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Make as much noise as possible to try and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from sleeping and force them elsewhere.
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Victoria Valenzuela,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
One 2024 meta-analysis, for example, found that all manner of sensory experiences—including sounds, smells, flashing lights, physical pressure, and pain—can be incorporated into dreams when people are sleeping and investigators provide the stimulus.
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