1
as in slept
to engage in sexual intercourse
cats conceive almost every time they mate
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Adjective
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Watson was 26, married and childless at the time of the crash.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2025 -
No doubt a married couple in crisis at eight o’clock on a weekday morning.—
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
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“Mated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mated. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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