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heterosexual

[het-er-uh-sek-shoo-uhl, -seks-yoo-] / ˌhɛt ər əˈsɛk ʃu əl, -ˈsɛks ju- /
ADJECTIVE
attracted to opposite sex
Synonyms
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Antonyms
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achillean bisexual gay homosexual lesbian queer sapphic


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That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The report also found more than half of gay and bisexual men aged 65 and above live alone, compared with less than a quarter of heterosexual men.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Dad Brain,” as the author acknowledges, skews toward married, educated, heterosexual couples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Must we really dwell, ladies, on the downsides of heterosexual dating, marriage, childbearing, and domestic labor as though they are issues of life and death?

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

And that person, at least in high-school heterosexual relationships, is definitely the girl.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

"I'm a married gay man and we adopted our son so we didn't have the normal route that most heterosexuals couples will have had into parenting," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024

In 2021, Australian biologist Brendan Zietsch and colleagues presented evidence that heterosexuals carrying same-sex-associated alleles have more sexual partners than those not carrying the variants.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

While 69% of heterosexuals described their physical health as “good” or “excellent,” only half of their non-straight peers said the same.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

“Every night he introduced me with shining words to these walls of heterosexuals all over the world,” Anohni intoned, as a drummer in the park bashed away in the distance.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

I want heterosexuals to love the book too, but I’m not changing the depiction of this world to meet their sensibilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022



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