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Recent Examples of fornication
Strong was promoted to Hand of the King after King Viserys banished Otto Hightower from court in the wake of allegations of fornication between Princess Rhaenyra and Prince Daemon.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 June 2024
If the apparent maidservant was actually a man committing fornication that might lead to another servant’s falling pregnant, then Hall was a materially destabilizing influence in the community.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Co-created by the Egyptian American comedian Ramy Youssef, the show gives viewers a peek into the dirty mind of an unmarried Muslim twentysomething struggling to reconcile his duelling devotions: faith and fornication.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Because surely, surely, the housewives of Dublin were not so lustful that chance encounters with tradesmen led immediately to attacks of passion and fornication?
—Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
Charlotte, Harry, Lisa, and Herbert are gathered to send their kids off to summer camp, guaranteeing a few weeks of unfettered fornication.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 July 2023
Anthony Mackie and Zoë Chao star as a pair of astronauts stranded aboard a NASA shuttle that gets lost in space, and their decent onscreen chemistry helps fuel a rom-com tackling questions of fidelity, friendship and, well, fornication, as the would-be couple endlessly drifts through the cosmos.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
And fornication is punishable by what, my love?
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
This judge, who believes gay people are disordered and that being transgender is a mental illness, also laments widespread contraception and the elimination of legal penalties for fornication and adultery.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 June 2024
If the apparent maidservant was actually a man committing fornication that might lead to another servant’s falling pregnant, then Hall was a materially destabilizing influence in the community.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Co-created by the Egyptian American comedian Ramy Youssef, the show gives viewers a peek into the dirty mind of an unmarried Muslim twentysomething struggling to reconcile his duelling devotions: faith and fornication.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Because surely, surely, the housewives of Dublin were not so lustful that chance encounters with tradesmen led immediately to attacks of passion and fornication?
—Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
Charlotte, Harry, Lisa, and Herbert are gathered to send their kids off to summer camp, guaranteeing a few weeks of unfettered fornication.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 July 2023
Anthony Mackie and Zoë Chao star as a pair of astronauts stranded aboard a NASA shuttle that gets lost in space, and their decent onscreen chemistry helps fuel a rom-com tackling questions of fidelity, friendship and, well, fornication, as the would-be couple endlessly drifts through the cosmos.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
And fornication is punishable by what, my love?
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
This judge, who believes gay people are disordered and that being transgender is a mental illness, also laments widespread contraception and the elimination of legal penalties for fornication and adultery.
—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fornication
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The report highlights that the cancer burden is shifting from men to women in the United States — narrowing the gap between the sexes — as well as from older to younger adults.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Carter remained at Maranatha, noting that the congregation’s deacons were divided about evenly between the sexes.—
Bill Barrow,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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Adding to these racial fetish undertones is a Black family servant whose coitus with Lucy’s soon-to-be sister-in-law (a white woman with box braids) is also constantly on display, leaving her to pleasure herself when he’s called away.—
Nicholas Bell,
SPIN,
31 July 2024
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On occasion, the coitus took place at the volunteers’ homes.—
Gretchen Reynolds,
Anchorage Daily News,
16 Feb. 2023
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With hysterical plotlines involving things like intercourse with baked goods or hair gels made from bodily fluids?—
Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Jan. 2025
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From Intercourse Pregnancy is more likely to occur if vaginal intercourse occurs every other day or every third day on or around a female's fertile days.—
Matthew Wosnitzer,
Verywell Health,
2 Jan. 2025
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Put another way, the three latest Brood X generation map perfectly to milestones in my life cycle: birth, coition, procreation.—
Ross Kenneth Urken,
Scientific American,
14 June 2021
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But the course of the hunt itself is unnameable and uncontrollable, like coition.—
Roberto Calasso,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2020
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Always sick, always breathless, his lovemaking constantly interrupted by his coughing or his guts.—
Daniel Mason,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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For all of Labour’s lovemaking to the union bosses over the past few months, the strikes persist.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
30 Oct. 2024
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American society and our relations with other societies are driven by the competition/conflict choice.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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The concerns over trade relations stem from a history of tariffs, sanctions, and disputes that have strained the ties between the world's two largest economies.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Fornication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fornication. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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