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the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married a series of Rococo paintings in which the lovemaking of French aristocrats is depicted with erotic playfulness

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Recent Examples of lovemaking Early on, the director preferred portraying heterosexual lovemaking. Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025 The scene — shot long before the days of intimacy coordinators — goes on for quite some time, and features both actors in the nude (almost — there were modesty coverings out of view) being quite vigorous in their simulated lovemaking. Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025 Always sick, always breathless, his lovemaking constantly interrupted by his coughing or his guts. Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 For all of Labour’s lovemaking to the union bosses over the past few months, the strikes persist. Samantha Conti, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lovemaking
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Noun
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January saying that the federal government will only recognize two sexes: male and female.
    Sonam Sheth Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast serve as aggregation sites for sand tiger sharks, and the digital photographs captured by those in the water often show bite wounds on both sexes.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This leaves many users disillusioned with digital dating and pushes them toward reverse catfishing in pursuit of less performative connections.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Aside from fake dating, the novel is full of beloved, albeit cheesy, rom-com tropes.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Painful intercourse is not a thing in your world.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For her, bedrooms and dining rooms, in particular, benefit from the romance and visual depth these prints offer.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The pair rekindled their romance after a five-month break in early 2025.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Researchers in Taiwan documented this rare case of a predator exploiting its prey’s mating signal to its own advantage.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Landscape Second Category Fauna And Flora After mating, a male leopard must escape the female’s claws within seconds.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In a five-photo joint post on Instagram on Tuesday, Kelce and Swift revealed their engagement after a courtship that lasted for about two years.
    Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's two-year courtship is sparking a social media debate about engagement timing.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As for Cohen’s next novel, Beautiful Losers, which was set in an apartment in Montreal as a bereaved and lust‑tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead, there was a sharp divide of opinion internally at Viking.
    Paul Slovak September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Song Seok-ha, 67, who has been protesting every day for five years near the US Embassy in Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance, was concerned about long-term damage to relations.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Lovemaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovemaking. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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