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carnal

[kahr-nl] / ˈkɑr nl /


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He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

“Julia” makes much of Child’s embrace of the sensual — French food and wine, and carnal pleasure — and the journey is told most convincingly through snapshots.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021

They provide a bridge between our carnal nature and their incorporeal institutions.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

It turned her from the "carnal," and was the cause of her joining the Alton Road Chapel, at which Mr. Hearty worshipped.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins




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