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Recent Examples of copulate
He was groped over and under his clothes, forced to fondle and orally copulate the perpetrators and repeatedly raped.
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Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
Religious leaders specified days on which, for medical or liturgical reasons, married couples were not to copulate—one Irish rule book from the early seventh century excluded a good two-thirds of the year.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
Religious leaders specified days on which, for medical or liturgical reasons, married couples were not to copulate—one Irish rule book from the early seventh century excluded a good two-thirds of the year.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copulate
sleep
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With dogs sleeping on average 12 to 14 hours a day, owners likely have stopped and admired their ability to snooze, especially as some canines twitch during a dream.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Children who sleep on their parents’ graves.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Copulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copulate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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