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.
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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
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracurricular
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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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