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
Those landmarks include getting summer jobs, getting themselves to sports or other extracurricular obligations, and managing their own health care appointments.
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Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
The analysis also says the diversion of taxpayer dollars away from public schools has led to schools being shut down, teachers being laid off and the loss of other resources like extracurricular activities.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
In addition, there is discretionary spending that may include college tuition, vacations, and extracurricular activities $71,586.
—Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The school bell rang at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, but instead of busing off to extracurricular activities or home for the weekend, Meridian Technical Charter students donned headsets and grabbed wireless controllers.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025
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Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
The analysis also says the diversion of taxpayer dollars away from public schools has led to schools being shut down, teachers being laid off and the loss of other resources like extracurricular activities.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
In addition, there is discretionary spending that may include college tuition, vacations, and extracurricular activities $71,586.
—Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The school bell rang at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, but instead of busing off to extracurricular activities or home for the weekend, Meridian Technical Charter students donned headsets and grabbed wireless controllers.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracurricular
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When the two connected, to Adell’s surprise, the story she had been told about her birth, that she was conceived via an extramarital affair, was a lie.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
14 Apr. 2025
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For romantic thrills, people openly pursue extramarital affairs, though these aren’t necessarily consummated.—
Madeleine Feeny,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 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 3 May. 2025.
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