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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Adjective
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Most participants in the championship prepare primarily on their own, outside of their regular schooling and extracurricular activities.—
Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2025 -
Peripheral topics could be refocused into stand-alone lessons or extracurricular modules, freeing core class time to concentrate on deeper learning.—
Luke Lombe,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 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
Adjective
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For romantic thrills, people openly pursue extramarital affairs, though these aren’t necessarily consummated.—
Madeleine Feeny,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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When the two connected, to Adell’s surprise, the story she had been told about her birth, that she was conceived via an extramarital affair, was a lie.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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