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fornicate
verb
for·ni·cate
ˈfȯr-nə-ˌkāt
fornicated; fornicating; fornicates
: to commit fornication : to engage in consensual sexual intercourse with someone to whom one is not married
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Age-old paintings of satyrs bedding nymphs and mythological figures fornicating have been newly unearthed at a small house at Pompeii.
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Alex Greenberger For Artnews, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
Beset by pressures on all sides — complicated when Otto reported to him that Rhaenyra and Daemon were seen fornicating, for which Viserys fired Otto — Viserys banished Daemon a second time and ordered Rhaenyra to marry Laenor Velaryon, heir to the Driftwood Throne.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 13 June 2024
From bodily function issues and kid shenanigans to videos of terrible tattoos and people looking to fornicate with anything that has a pulse, fans serve as their own laugh track.
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Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Welcome back, George Santos — or, as many began calling Donald Trump’s number two in reference to the false viral claim that Vance has fornicated with furniture, hello, Sofa Loren.
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Samantha Allen, Them, 12 Aug. 2024
But the series works best as an elaborate prank to make critics look silly for complaining about the lack of nuance in a cartoon about fornicating food.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2024
Costner, age 69, who willed this project into being, makes sure to include a scene in which the former supermodel Lee mounts him, tells him to just lie there, and fornicates him into a good night’s sleep.
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EW.com, 26 June 2024
The medium is the message At its core, this is a story about the impact of surveillance capitalism – the corporate and government practice of gathering data about consumers to better understand and persuade them to buy, vote, fornicate, whatever.
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Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Add to that the novelty of observing this (imaginary) nomadic species forage, feed, fart and fornicate in their natural habitat for a year without uttering a single word.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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“Fornicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fornicate. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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verb
for·ni·cate
ˈfȯr-nə-ˌkāt
fornicated; fornicating
: to commit fornication : to engage in consensual sexual intercourse with someone to whom one is not married
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