as in heat
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a person's desire to have sex
They have healthy libidos.
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Recent Examples of libido
In turn, that can increase your libido.
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Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
Cold, calculating, honey-tongued and libido-free, with only the occasional lie or hallucination.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
That included testosterone, which is used to treat everything from low libido to bone health.
—Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2025
What the researchers found was there were no serious side effects at any dose level, and hormones remained stable and libido was unchanged.
—New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
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Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
Cold, calculating, honey-tongued and libido-free, with only the occasional lie or hallucination.
—Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
That included testosterone, which is used to treat everything from low libido to bone health.
—Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2025
What the researchers found was there were no serious side effects at any dose level, and hormones remained stable and libido was unchanged.
—New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for libido
Recent Examples of Synonyms for libido
Noun
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Highly active world Enceladus is a highly active world, with a global, salty sub-surface ocean, believed to be the source of its heat.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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But like the plants and animals facing new heat and drought challenges at the edge of a northward-shifting Sonoran Desert, sometimes things work in one configuration until conditions change just a little too much.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The trend captures a kind of affordable opulence, a desire to evoke the elegance of wealth without its cost.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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His decision to make the move to college was in large part driven by a desire to test himself.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Libido.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libido. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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