intercourse
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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
We don’t think about it in those terms, of course, but that was the obvious point for early humans with little knowledge of gestation and a weak understanding of the role of intercourse in procreation.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 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
During Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sexual intercourse from sunrise until sunset.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton’s absenting himself.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
But it was in the intercourses of social life that the superiority of Opposition was most incontestable.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
Moreover, "it is lawful upon a just cause of great charity or necessity to use, in our answers and intercourses, words of divers signification, though it does deceive him that asks."
From A Lie Never Justifiable by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull
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
What will be the spontaneous impression produced by looking back on bygone intercourses in life?
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
He declares, not only in his official communications here, but in his private intercourses with the members of the committee, that this clause is indispensably necessary to the security and negotiability of these demand notes.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
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