safe sex

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Recent Examples of safe sex Volunteers target a basketball court in the community, where young men gather, and hand out a safe sex kit, which includes condoms. Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 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. Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for safe sex
Noun
  • The State Department suspended processing applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker in January, shortly after President Trump signed an executive order proclaiming the U.S. recognizes only two unchangeable sexes, male and female.
    Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • China, India resume flights after five-year hiatus China and India agreed to restart direct flights after a five-year hiatus, the latest sign of thawing relations between the world’s most populous nations.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Buck began her career at Fox News Channel as a media relations coordinator.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Joseph was originally charged with forcible oral copulation, false imprisonment, and assault.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • This pattern, called assortative mating, means that when parents with overlapping genetic risks have children, those risks can combine and accumulate.
    Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Females produce a pheromone which attracts clusters of males for mating.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What this means for me, practically speaking, is that the director wants a close-up of my face as my character Joe is deep in dissociative reverie mid-coitus.
    Sophie Ansari, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • When coitus occurs, it’s scored by unctuous music.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are alignments of anemia with some of the early modern symptoms of green sickness—though very few people today are likely to think anemia is caused by a blockage of bodily humors curable by intercourse.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
  • One 2024 survey found that about 60 percent of college students reported having had vaginal intercourse; a 2022 Pew Research survey reported that more than half of all adults under 30 were in a relationship at the time.
    Molly Langmuir, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More than 95,000 customers agree on its power, and our commerce director Rachel Fletcher uses it on the regular to clean up pet messes.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The government could not pay its debts, defend the frontier or protect commerce from interference by states and foreign governments.
    Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike his past projects, there is little exploration of sexuality or love; instead, the focus of the movie is on power dynamics and optics.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But our sexuality, identity, and capacity for love were never meant to be cured.
    Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Time, 8 Oct. 2025

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