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

It can cause extreme pain during periods, sexual intercourse and bowel movements, as well as pelvic pain, abdominal bloating, nausea and fatigue.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025

From dawn to dusk, observant Muslims the world over will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

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

“Should our whole intercourse consist of an exchange of compliments? Ma foil”.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

Milton was a stern man, and as he was so much devoted to study, he was perhaps too negligent in those endearments and tender intercourses of love which a wife has a right to expect.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber

Here he spent the rest of days in devotional exercises in friendly intercourses with other Sufis and in religious instruction of the young.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field

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

Happy love restored her at once to her natural mood, lulling her to the deepest rest when she rested, and rendering her free and self-possessed in all the employments and intercourses of life.

From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau