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Noun
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Raising awareness and accepting that autistic children of both sexes should be allowed special accommodations at school, such as taking tests in a separate room or wearing headphones.—
Matt Villano,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025 -
The changes came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize two unchangeable sexes, male and female.—
Kaitlyn Schwanemann,
NBC news,
31 Mar. 2025
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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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Insiders describe relations between her and brother Santo as tense and combative.—
Mattia Dognini,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Jan. 2025
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Villanueva, his instincts honed by his decades of service as a lawman, intuits that the only way a human being can reasonably incur a rug burn is via high-friction hotel room coitus with a 250-pound man.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 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
Noun
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Painful intercourse can be caused by several common issues.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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As the Cleveland Clinic says, symptoms include burning, itching, spotting, and painful intercourse.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ryan Reynolds, who moonlights as co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., turned up alongside super-creator Taylor Sheridan (whose own athletics usually involve cattle), NBA investor Mark Cuban and former Obama commerce secretary Penny Prtizker.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The trade war could reshape the structure of global trade and commerce.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Waiting Years—stood out for its searingly honest exploration of female sexuality.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
14 Apr. 2025
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Despite his character Cal Jacobs’s inexcusable behavior on the show, Dane has managed to capture the humanity of the character’s internal battle with his sexuality throughout the first two seasons.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
11 Apr. 2025
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