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sexuality

[sek-shoo-al-i-tee, seks-yoo-] / ˌsɛk ʃuˈæl ɪ ti, ˌsɛks ju- /
NOUN
sexual drive or interest
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As a result, she struggled with mental health and an aversion to sexuality from her youth onward, finding solace in artistic creation but little encouragement on that front from those around her.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Parton was an icon whose music, philanthropy and authenticity superseded genre, class, sexuality, color and politics.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

They expressed similar views but weren't targeted over their sexuality or subjected to insults about their mothers.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Which I suppose, for a gay man who’d spent the first 27 years of his life denying his sexuality to a family he feared wouldn’t understand, it was.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

Regardless of their sexuality, most of them liked to remind themselves that, yes, they still identified as women.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

If Americans have learned anything from the past few years, rational, unhinged, unethical, and deceitful are characteristics that come in all ethnicities, genders, and sexualities.

From Slate Aug. 1, 2024

The individuals interviewed for the study represented a broad range of education levels, occupations, sexualities, and racial and ethnic backgrounds.

From Science Daily Oct. 1, 2023

“We support all genders, sexualities and gender pronouns.”

From Washington Times Sep. 20, 2023

Gypsy Sport castings and fashion shows became — and remain — legendary, cherry picking models from a diversity of sexualities, genders, ethnicities, walks of life.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2023

Moreover, a man counts no more than a woman in their sum total of daily pleasure, and when they choose a comrade it is for human qualities, not sexualities.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer




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