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Recent Examples of arousal
Edging allows plenty of time for your arousal to build up so that orgasm flows easily and naturally.
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Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
The Patch Brand Libido Patch, $24 The Patch Brand’s latest launch employs L-arginine, maca root, vitamin B6 and more to enhance arousal.
—Emily Burns, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
To determine why the squirrels don’t experience thirst or look for water during these arousal bouts, Gracheva and her co-researchers ran a bevy of behavioral and molecular experiments.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
Dark Milk Loves Chocolate These chocolate edibles were explicitly designed for romantic arousal.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
The Patch Brand Libido Patch, $24 The Patch Brand’s latest launch employs L-arginine, maca root, vitamin B6 and more to enhance arousal.
—Emily Burns, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
To determine why the squirrels don’t experience thirst or look for water during these arousal bouts, Gracheva and her co-researchers ran a bevy of behavioral and molecular experiments.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
Dark Milk Loves Chocolate These chocolate edibles were explicitly designed for romantic arousal.
—Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arousal
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Prosecutors said in their detention letter that a December raid of Tal Alexander's apartment in New York City found photographs and videos that showed Oren, Alon and third parties with women in states of intoxication and undress.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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With less water and more body fat than men, Whyte explains that alcohol becomes more concentrated in a woman’s system, leading to faster intoxication and prolonged exposure to its effects.—
Sandra Rose Salathe,
Flow Space,
13 Jan. 2025
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Tuesday may be even colder as a high of 5 degrees is expected.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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When Gupta took office, overdose deaths were reaching new highs every single month, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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The filmmaker behind Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible movies has reason to believe audiences will feel the thrills behind the series' reportedly final film.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Rocky Mountain Construction Dual Track Raptor will have a green thrill track with six inversions and a blue family track with no inversions.—
Brady MacDonald,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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And while gay readers will be well acquainted with those exhilarations, Betancourt looks to mount a more sweeping argument against the tyrannies of normative sexuality, insisting throughout that friendship and flirtation might be as spiritually affirmative as monogamy.—
Jake Nevins,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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From excitement and exhilaration, to surprises and disappointments, human drama was on display for the roughly 6 hours of the competition.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes,
13 Sep. 2024
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At least 76 California cities had passed similar ordinances at the start of this year, but the ruling has thrown cold water on the state’s local building electrification push.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
17 Jan. 2025
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Schneider is involved with electrification and automation.—
Bill Koenig,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The buzz has carried on even as the Giants have combined to go 9-25 the last two years.—
Charlotte Carroll,
The Athletic,
29 Jan. 2025
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In one corner is Roan, who rode massive internet buzz, an opening slot on Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour and a collection of solid retro-dance-pop tunes to worldwide fame.—
Jim Harrington,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Arousal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arousal. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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