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copulates

verb

present tense third-person singular of copulate

as in sleeps

to engage in sexual intercourse the time of year when deer in the wild are likely to copulate

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Still operating today, guests scuba-dive 21 feet down to check into a suite that sleeps six.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
But the omniscient, unblinking eye of the Video Assistant Referee never sleeps.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 July 2026

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