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
Niche's comprehensive evaluation assessed various aspects of each district, including academic performance, teacher quality, availability of clubs and extracurricular activities, college preparation resources, and administrative effectiveness.
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
Students in the city’s smallest schools have fewer courses to choose from and often miss out on clubs, extracurricular activities and sports.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
Or taking a long walk outside or getting your nails done while waiting for your child to finish an extracurricular activity.
—Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 13 June 2025
Her extracurricular activities have often centered on that connection.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
Students in the city’s smallest schools have fewer courses to choose from and often miss out on clubs, extracurricular activities and sports.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
Or taking a long walk outside or getting your nails done while waiting for your child to finish an extracurricular activity.
—Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 13 June 2025
Her extracurricular activities have often centered on that connection.
—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracurricular
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In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.—
Thomas Urbain,
Fortune,
29 June 2025
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Last seen alive in 2020 In the first case against him, prosecutors argued that Barry Morphew killed his wife on May 9, 2020, after discovering her nearly two-year extramarital affair, then disposed of her body and staged a bike crash before leaving for work in Broomfield early the next day.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
20 June 2025
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The supernatural thriller sees a woman return from death as a vindictive spirit to torment her adulterous husband.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
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But with a twist so big — Sarah being the killer of her adulterous husband Adam’s mistress, Kelly Summers, and the one who set him up for the murder while simultaneously defending him tooth and nail in court — where was Rose to go after that?—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Extracurricular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracurricular. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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