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
There was some extracurricular activity involving Travis Kelce during Friday night's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers.
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
This has affected attendance, participation in extracurricular activities and communication within school communities.
—Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Bump arts ed from extracurricular to core curriculum.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Applicants should be particularly mindful of building a rigorous transcript to showcase their academic capabilities, a dynamic extracurricular profile, and drafting a set of essays that showcase the compelling qualitative elements of their candidacy.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for extracurricular
Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
This has affected attendance, participation in extracurricular activities and communication within school communities.
—Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Bump arts ed from extracurricular to core curriculum.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Applicants should be particularly mindful of building a rigorous transcript to showcase their academic capabilities, a dynamic extracurricular profile, and drafting a set of essays that showcase the compelling qualitative elements of their candidacy.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for extracurricular
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracurricular
Adjective
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Need someone to absorb your wife’s anger over that extramarital affair without inconveniencing your mistress?—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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Each of them offers money and position but nothing much in the way of pleasure, excitement, intellectual stimulation, or the prospect of anything other than a life of loveless, socially irreproachable tedium possibly brightened by the occasional extramarital affair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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