as in intercourse
sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
the students learned about the mechanics of sex and reproduction in health class
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Recent Examples of sex
Online dating sites provide an avenue for widows and widowers to meet eligible people of both sexes.
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Long before the genome was sequenced, people had identified specific parts of the chromosomes that, if deleted, were lethal—but only if inherited from one of the two sexes.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
Those include orders aimed at dismantling diversity and programs in the public and private sectors and declaring that the federal government would only recognize the male and female sexes.
—Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Long before the genome was sequenced, people had identified specific parts of the chromosomes that, if deleted, were lethal—but only if inherited from one of the two sexes.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
Those include orders aimed at dismantling diversity and programs in the public and private sectors and declaring that the federal government would only recognize the male and female sexes.
—Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sex
Noun
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Painful intercourse is not a thing in your world.—
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,
Flow Space,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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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
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As for Cohen’s next novel, Beautiful Losers, which was set in an apartment in Montreal as a bereaved and lust‑tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead, there was a sharp divide of opinion internally at Viking.—
Paul Slovak
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Song Seok-ha, 67, who has been protesting every day for five years near the US Embassy in Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance, was concerned about long-term damage to relations.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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“Sex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sex. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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