fornicating

present participle of fornicate

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Verb
  • In one of our conversations, Apatow brought up the episode in which one of the geeks of Freaks and Geeks, Neal Schweiber (played by Samm Levine), confronts his philandering father by telling hostile jokes about him through a ventriloquist puppet.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After copulating, the two males lay immobile on the seafloor as the female swam away.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fruit flies drown themselves in booze when deprived of mating opportunities.
    Big Think, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The video shows two male sharks mating with a female in quick succession, according to Storyful.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 23 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 3 Oct. 2025.

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