intercourse

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

These two were having intercourse, in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

As he warned, the “logical consequences of … a decision which elevates commercial intercourse … to the same plane as has been previously reserved for the free marketplace of ideas, are far reaching indeed.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023

Emergency contraception - including emergency contraceptive pills and copper-bearing intrauterine devices - can prevent about 95% of pregnancies when taken within five days of intercourse, the WHO says.

From BBC ● May 31, 2023

“Should our whole intercourse consist of an exchange of compliments? Ma foi!”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

It is asserted, that they understand each other in their commercial intercourses.

From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

In all the intercourses of her family, since the first rough usage which she remembered, there had never been anything sweet or gracious. 

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

He threw out a reserve, encysted in which he grew to maturity unaffected by the intercourses that modify the maturity of others into the thing we call a man. 

From Shelley; an essay by Francis Thompson

There is a maxim extremely in vogue in the ordinary intercourses of society, which deserves to be noticed here, for the purpose of exposing it to merited condemnation.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin