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Noun
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There’s a 30-minute difference between the finishing times of the two sexes, which takes into account a number of physiological advantages men have over women.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Apr. 2025 -
Weeks before Ives debuted the shirt, President Donald Trump announced the federal government would recognize only two sexes, male and female.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Adding to these racial fetish undertones is a Black family servant whose coitus with Lucy’s soon-to-be sister-in-law (a white woman with box braids) is also constantly on display, leaving her to pleasure herself when he’s called away.—
Nicholas Bell,
SPIN,
31 July 2024
Noun
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In that incident, Haley said Weinstein unexpectedly asked to meet her in his hotel room and began having unwanted intercourse with her.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
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For couples who are temporarily unable to engage in intercourse, there are still many ways to stay connected physically.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Anything less risks reviving the opacity that plagued early social commerce.—
Nizan Geslevich Packin,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Trump enacted the tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1970s law that allows the president to regulate commerce during a national emergency.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Fashion intersects with politics, economics, globalization, sexuality, gender, identity, and nearly every other dimension of human life.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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While the show does not set out to answer that question, Miller said that dandyism by definition is an act of a refusal and noted that dandies can push boundaries of gender, class, sexuality, race, and Blackness.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
5 May 2025
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