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
Students say food, sports and extracurricular activities could be improved.
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Charlie Finnerty, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
All extracurricular activities and athletics will take place as scheduled Thursday, officials said.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Our schedules didn’t match, and his nightly winding-down shift offered far more extracurricular opportunities than my waking-up shift.
—Craig Bartelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Leadership roles and extracurricular activities have prepared Poway High School Salutatorian Michael Markoff to tackle the challenges of studying medicine at UCLA this fall.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
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Charlie Finnerty, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
All extracurricular activities and athletics will take place as scheduled Thursday, officials said.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Our schedules didn’t match, and his nightly winding-down shift offered far more extracurricular opportunities than my waking-up shift.
—Craig Bartelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Leadership roles and extracurricular activities have prepared Poway High School Salutatorian Michael Markoff to tackle the challenges of studying medicine at UCLA this fall.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 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 13 Jul. 2025.
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