consensual
Example Sentences
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“I’m trying to find some consensual way into it, but I eventually just need to perform the romantic gesture of doing what feels right and what comes naturally to me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The defendant was arrested at the hospital and provided a pre-prepared statement accepting that he let himself into the house but denying the offences insisting everything was consensual.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The video also surfaced on other platforms, including Meta-owned Facebook, where some posts used it to baselessly claim that the lawsuit was "fake" and the two had been involved in a "consensual relationship."
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
He refused to step down while denying the allegations, saying the encounters with both women were consensual, and called for prosecutors to open investigations into the claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Accordingly, Bostick was not really “seized” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and the subsequent search was purely consensual.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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