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Recent Examples of safe sex
Spears said one of the lockers is located at a coffee shop between two Catholic schools, targeting students who might not have safe sex supplies readily available to them.
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Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for safe sex
Noun
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So no therapy will work equally well, or even in the same manner, for both sexes.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Balls move the plot along in Austen’s novels because, much like the novel itself, a dance is a codified art form and the space where relations between the sexes are tested.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Positive relations with home and family give you an easier springboard to your outer world.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
23 Aug. 2025
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The company's media relations team did not respond to a request for comment on the Louisville store's opening or plans for future store locations in Kentucky.—
Olivia Evans,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Duran was arrested and booked into jail on charges of oral copulation with a minor under the age of 18, deputies said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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Paul, upon learning of their coitus, does not take it well.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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Villanueva, his instincts honed by his decades of service as a lawman, intuits that the only way a human being can reasonably incur a rug burn is via high-friction hotel room coitus with a 250-pound man.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Catholic Church believes intercourse should only happen between married couples and teaches abstinence for all others.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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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
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Debra Krol reports on Indigenous communities at the confluence of climate, culture and commerce in Arizona and the Intermountain West.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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But the scope of AUKUS––particularly regarding dual-use emerging technologies—means that the leadership of AUKUS should come from a consortium of defense, foreign, and commerce departments or ministries.—
GARY ROUGHEAD,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Sep. 2025
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Mescal’s Lionel is more comfortable with his sexuality than O’Connor’s David.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Many focus on race, sexuality and immigration.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Safe sex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/safe%20sex. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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