fornicating

present participle of fornicate

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Verb
  • The disease spreads in koala populations through reproduction and social behavior connected to mating.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The colony quickly descended into indiscriminate violence, stopped mating, and died out.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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“Fornicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fornicating. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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