as in extramarital
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse hired a private detective to investigate her husband's extracurricular activities

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Recent Examples of extracurricular Peripheral topics could be refocused into stand-alone lessons or extracurricular modules, freeing core class time to concentrate on deeper learning. Luke Lombe, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Most participants in the championship prepare primarily on their own, outside of their regular schooling and extracurricular activities. Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2025 Which extracurricular activities interest you most? Kara Nesvig, Parents, 23 Apr. 2025 By design, the hosts create their own share of extracurricular gossip for listeners to converse about. Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for extracurricular
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  • His childhood friend–slash–onetime extramarital hookup, Nora, is back in the hospital with an infected graft, and her condition seems to get worse by the minute.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • These California homes were among the very few commissions Wright worked on between 1922 and 1934, partly due to his declining reputation from the Taliesin murders and his extramarital affair and partly due to the Great Depression.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Nor did anyone blink when Shonda Rhimes set Scandal within the White House of a wishy-washy, adulterous GOP President who’d unwittingly stolen an election.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The new version strips down the book’s narrative, concentrating on the plight of an adulterous airline pilot (Cage) who’s forced to land a plane after all the good Christians are called up to heaven.
    Emily Heller, Vulture, 12 July 2024

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“Extracurricular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracurricular. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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