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Noun
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Trump also signed on his first day back in office an order declaring that the government recognizes only two sexes, male and female.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
20 June 2025 -
And then there’s the immune response discrepancy between the sexes that requires further investigation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 June 2025
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American society and our relations with other societies are driven by the competition/conflict choice.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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Insiders describe relations between her and brother Santo as tense and combative.—
Mattia Dognini,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Jan. 2025
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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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Until recently, most insurance companies followed the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s definition for fertility, which defined infertility as a condition in which heterosexual couples couldn’t conceive after a year of unprotected intercourse.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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The pair always took Ecstasy or MDMA beforehand, Ventura alleged, and Combs would direct Ventura and the male escort to perform erotic acts leading up to intercourse.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
18 May 2025
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In confronting the Mexican government for its failure to prevent the femicides, the band also challenges a culture in which commerce is valued more than the lives of the workers who keep it running.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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Trump’s former commerce secretary Wilbur Ross warned that after successful negotiations with China and the U.K., the Trump administration may become overconfident in negotiations with the EU, pushing away European allies.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
18 June 2025
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The late twenties also saw the onset in America of the Great Depression, and, at least as far as entertainment is concerned, many scholars link displays of sexuality and queerness in films in the late 1920s and early 1930s to a larger crisis in masculinity.—
Betsy Golden Kellem,
JSTOR Daily,
25 June 2025
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More than 270 photographs show expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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