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Many of them also demonstrated against President Trump's recent executive orders and policies targeting transgender people and recognizing only two unchangeable sexes, male and female.—
Mandalit del Barco,
NPR,
29 June 2025 -
On the first day of his term, Trump signed an executive order that recognized two sexes, male and female, a dictum that has moved across all departments under his jurisdiction.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
25 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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The concerns over trade relations stem from a history of tariffs, sanctions, and disputes that have strained the ties between the world's two largest economies.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
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
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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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Conducting or participating in the conduct through a pattern of racketeering activity of such affairs of an enterprise affecting interstate commerce.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Those dignitaries included the governor of Telangana, the mayor of Hyderabad, members of Parliament, the minister of state for commerce and industry and the state minister of information technology.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
2 July 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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