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doings between individuals or groups the niceties of social intercourse are lost on that nerd

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Recent Examples of intercourse The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others. Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 Vaginal dryness can lead to itching, pain, or light bleeding, especially after intercourse. Health, 30 Aug. 2025 Echard consistently denied that intercourse had happened, saying their contact was limited to oral sex, and accused Owens of fabricating medical documents and manipulating pregnancy evidence. Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025 The most common signs of the condition are painful period cramps, pain during intercourse or while urinating, more frequent urination, back pain, nausea, vomiting and bloating. Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intercourse
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Noun
  • Her primary areas of study are hunter-gather societies, technological change, and human-material interactions most broadly.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There, interactions between streams of liquid iron generate a magnetic field one quintillion times more powerful than that of an ordinary lab magnet (but thousands of times weaker than the Sun’s).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The World Ultimate Athletics Championships, which debut next September (as a finals-only global, international competition), are excluding men’s triple jump and women’s hammer throw, as well as shot put and discus for both sexes.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Ironically, stiff upper lips seem to have almost vanished as both sexes burst into tears if anything either lovely or lousy happens to them.
    Jilly Cooper, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relations, my mother and I listened to the prayers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Clear messaging can help relations of all kinds flow smoothly now.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And Japan needs to balance relations with China, its largest economic partner, too.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
  • With aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relations, my mother and I listened to the prayers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To combat the spread of the flies, the USDA disperses sterile flies into the area to stop the mating, a scientific method known as sterile insect technique (SIT).
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Since these ticks are parthenogenetic, meaning an individual female can lay eggs without mating, essentially cloning herself, male ticks are rare.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Intercourse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intercourse. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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