as in extracurricular
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
adulterine fiction often portrays the illicit lovers sympathetically
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Admissions decisions may instead rely more heavily on GPA, coursework rigor, extracurricular activities, and personal essays.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Special education at different schools, few extracurricular activities, the complex and coordinated steps needed to carry out day-to-day life—all hidden.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Nor did anyone blink when Shonda Rhimes set Scandal within the White House of a wishy-washy, adulterous GOP President who’d unwittingly stolen an election.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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The new version strips down the book’s narrative, concentrating on the plight of an adulterous airline pilot (Cage) who’s forced to land a plane after all the good Christians are called up to heaven.—
Emily Heller,
Vulture,
12 July 2024
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Tabloids hinted at steamy extramarital affairs— perhaps a gigolo, a former love, a famous author, but nothing came of those speculations.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2025
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Eight of his closest aides reported him to the FBI in 2020, accusing him of bribery and abusing his office to help one of his friends and campaign contributors, Nate Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital affair.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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