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Advertisement The lawsuit alleges Harris comforted the boy and during the encounter began forcibly orally copulating the teen.
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Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Its first appearance in American print resulted from an 1846 Missouri court case in which a man stood accused of copulating with a horse.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Advertisement All of the male apes at the sanctuary receive vasectomies, but that does not preclude them from copulating.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
Paired with the orchid’s unique color and shape, these adaptations lure male wasps from afar and inspire them to try to copulate with the flower, covering the wasps with pollen in the process.
—Liz Lindqwister, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
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Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Its first appearance in American print resulted from an 1846 Missouri court case in which a man stood accused of copulating with a horse.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Advertisement All of the male apes at the sanctuary receive vasectomies, but that does not preclude them from copulating.
—Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024
Paired with the orchid’s unique color and shape, these adaptations lure male wasps from afar and inspire them to try to copulate with the flower, covering the wasps with pollen in the process.
—Liz Lindqwister, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copulate
sleep
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His parents went to sleep that night believing their son would soon be in Florida, and play a practice round that next day.—
Mac Engel
May 16,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 May 2025
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The quiet child keeps mostly to himself, eating lunch in the locker room and occasionally sleeping there too.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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“Copulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copulate. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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